God created war so that Americans would learn Geography.

Mark Twain

There are some activities in which the motive for private profit leads, on the whole, to the promotion of the general interest and others in which this is not so. Finance is now definitely in the latter class.

Bertrand Russell

Modern Midas – 1933

“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”

Henry J. Kaiser

“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

John. F. Kennedy

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

John Maynard Keynes