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What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. read more
What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It’s no more than that.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.
There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of read more
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.
A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.
Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians read more
Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.
