Quotes

Hedge fund managers who have shorted their way to respectable gains this year are playing a ball control game, trying to avoid big risks

What need is there for merchants to have any style, or to risk their goods overseas, or the children to learn a trade, for

My notion is that all the larger human problems are insoluble, and that life is quite meaningless – a spectacle without purpose or moral.

long attack on American Culture

Purity – in body – in ethics – in finance

“Herrenmoral”, how Nietzsche refers to the morals of the master race.

the charm was in the excitement – in the pleasure of sympathy in large enterprises- in the rousing of the faculties of imagination and

The development of the spirit of capitalism is best understood as part of the development of rationalism as a whole, and could be deduced

In the 1680s he operated as a merchant in Spain. His speculations in the Africa company, perfume manufacture, and others incurred such great losses

examples of failure, 1929 crash