Some of the worst pitches are the people who talk all fancy who’ve been to business school.

It always horrified Bryce to see professors fawn on businessmen—the very men they ridiculed in their private conversations—whenever a research contract might be in the offing.

When I went to finance, I discovered that those who *tawk* about money were the ones who didn't have it, couldn't make it, or wanted a lot more but couldn't get it. Same problem with IQ. Those who insist on measuring IQ are ... the most stupid.

"It was a different feeling: it is hard to focus on a conversation, especially when it is mathematical, when you have just personally earned several hundreds of times the annual salary of the researcher trying to tell you that you are "wrong," by betting against his representation of the world."

Speak in terror of dollars and cents, (the language best understood by the ruling class)

Schwartz closed his eyes. “My grandmother told me never to get mixed up with economists. Their thinking is muddy and their breath is bad, she said. She also warned me against Yale men. Perverts of the intellect, she called them. So here I am cooped up on an interstellar ship with five hundred alien creatures and one fellow human, and he has to be an economist from Yale.”

Money does talk, but it has a limited vocabulary.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

We generally did not talk about the stock market very much at the Fed.

When I started worrying about stocks, it was the late 1930s and early 1940s and it didn't seem like a good way to make money then, either.

Now that I was awakening to the realities of the economic struggle, I realized that I could no longer conscientiously deal with certain subjects in the way that editors wanted them handled. I had ideas for pictorial attacks on institutions hooked up with the money power, but there was no sale for these. The few papers which dared strike at the system were small, and had no money to pay for my product. And I had to live and support a family.

Too many are interested in “tech” (by which they mean money) but they aren’t interested in tech (by which I mean math).

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.