“The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket”

“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid”

“Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale”

“Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great”

“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else”

“Our financial resources have run out and so the doors will soon be closing”