Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.