If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

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

In the long run we are all dead.

The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.