One of the small but rewarding vocations of a free society is the provision of needed conclusions, properly supported by statistics and moral indigna… - John Kenneth Galbraith

There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.

Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man... begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization — the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.