The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof

On the first of January of 1929, as a simple matter of probability, it was most likely that the boom would end before the year was out, ... The market wouldn't level out; it would fall precipitately.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.