Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.
An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it