A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

Contributing to and supporting this euphoria are two further factors little noted in our time or in past times. The first is the extreme brevity of the financial memory. ... The second ... is the specious association of money and intelligence.