A Romantic Striving For An Impossible Ideal.

What I Find Very Interesting About The Mutual Funds Managers Is That Here Are People Who Are The New Masters Of The Universe. They're Managing Billions, Yet They're Subject To This Quiet Daily Tyranny Of Numbers.

The Great Inflation Of The 1970s Destroyed Faith In Paper Assets, Because If You Held A Bond, Suddenly The Bond Was Worth Much Less Money Than It Was Before.

Washington Once Advised His Adopted Grandson That Where There Is No Occasion For Expressing An Opinion, It Is Best To Be Silent. For There Is Nothing More Certain Than That It Is At All Times More Easy To Make Enemies Than Friends.

After 1929, So Many People Had Been Traumatized By The Stock Market Crash That There Was A Lost Generation.

In Waiting For The Glorious Moment Of That First Book Contract, Writers Must Have Giant Reservoirs Of Patience. Yet They Must Persevere Because They Don't Know The Destiny That Is Being Worked Out For Them. They Creep Humbly Along The Ground, Without The Spacious Aerial Vision Of Their Lives That Would Show Them The Destiny In Store For Them.