“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”

“The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.”

“Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.”

“It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not…”

“Stupidity, greed, misdirected aggression—or sum it up and call it man.”

“The strongest emotions in the marketplace are greed and fear.”

“Human history is not the product of the wise direction of human reason, but is shaped by the forces of emotion—our dreams, our pride, our greed, our fears, and our desire for revenge.”

“We have a date to rumble with stupidity, ignorance, prejudice, laziness, hatred, and greed.”

“The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.”

“Rome ruled the world with that phalanx formation and Britain with the three-masted ship; America has ruled the world with the moving image and the projection of image around the world.”