Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Risk
Roger Lowenstein
1994 bond debacle, sparked by raise in short term interest rates. ‘Swashbuckling Steinhardt lost $800 million of his investor’s money in 4 days, and
Unitarian Minister O.B. Frothingham, 1883
The frenzy of high stakes betting was ‘one of those perilous devices by which men try to infuse romance into their otherwise dull existence,
Thomas Cooper
The commercial speculator often gets rich by accident, by unfair venturing, by sudden exertions. Wealth thus suddenly obtained is in many respects detrimental to
Jackson Lears/David Thompson
Great gamblers have seen the grim absurdities in capital and its accumulation. They know that money is merely a game (like 10,000 on the
Jackson Lears
An emphasis on the precariousness of wealth, the impermanence of life, and the arbitrariness of money as a measure of worth – if these
J.N. Fadenburg
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches