Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.