Quotes: “What really matters is an awareness of how greed and fear can drive rational people to behave in strange ways when they gather in the marketplace.”
“[At the stock exchange] concealment of facts, quarrels, provocations, mockery, idle talk, violent desires, collusion, artful deceptions, betrayals, cheatings and even the tragic end are to be found.”
“Some gamble for the fun of it, some for vanity, many are spendthrifts, many find satisfaction in their occupation, and quite a few [just] make a living [at] the stock exchange.”