Quotes

Women are at last taking a hand in man’s most exciting captialist game. For the first time they have the interest, the self assurance,

In the stock market of the Roaring Twenties, Americans found a secular religion whose ludic qualities, cynicism, and materialism reflected the zeitgeist of the

At times, the transfer of risk in the stock market goes beyond the inevitable risks of business and becomes an end in itself. Under

examples of failure, 1929 crash

Is theivery a short-run gain for the theif? Most thieves think it is or they would not steal. Having a stunted perception, they fail

One of the priviledges of working hard and having some financial success is that you can do things in a slightly different way, and

just as the 1929 crash and its aftermath destroyed Hoover’s presidency, so the ascent of the US stock market, from late 1994 to the

In a company of millionaires, employees have to find fulfillment in their daily toil or they’ll simply quit.

When Keynes made his prediction in 1931, he wasn’t saying life would be perfect after the economic problem was solved, only that “the economic

People don’t mind, for instance, if someone gets rich by working harder and creating things. I don’t think people mind that Bill Gates has