Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. - John Kenneth Galbraith

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Meetings are a great trap. … they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Regulation and more orthodox economic knowledge are not what protect the individual and the financial institution when euphoria returns, leading on as it does to wonder at the increase in values and wealth, to the rush to participate that drives up prices, and to the eventual crash and its sullen and painful aftermath. There is protection only in a clear perception of the characteristics common to these flights into what must conservatively be described as mass insanity. Only then is the investor warned and saved.