“To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.”

“The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.”

“The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.”

“All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.”

“A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.”

“The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.”

“In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.”

“Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.”