You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.