I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.