【译文】得到恩惠很深时应及早退出身来,春风得意时要及时罢休。千万不要等到是非传入耳内,致使过去的恩爱变成怨仇。
无论是正确的还是错误的,经济学家和政治哲学家的思想都比通常理解的有力。确实,世界不受其他任何事物统治。自信不被知识分子影响的那些所谓务实的人,往往只是几个过时经济学家思想的奴隶。(Concluding Notes. p. 383-384)
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.