Activity Quote by Charlie Munger

I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of…

— H. L. Mencken

“Both as workers and as consumers, we feel we move in channels that have been projected from afar by vast impersonal forces. We worry…

— Matthew B. Crawford

“Even when the underlying motive of purchase is mere speculative greed, human nature desires to conceal this unlovely impulse behind a screen of apparent…

— Benjamin Graham

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

— Eric Hoffer

“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact:…

— Wendell Berry

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits…

— Peter Thomas Bauer

That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Humans are very intelligent in inventing new ideas to gamble and pursue financial greed. Every financial trading, instruments and systems looks like a beautiful…

— Aditya Ajmera

The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs.…

— Warren Buffett

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy…

— Laurence J. Peter

“The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“Humans are in danger of losing their economic value because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.”

— Yuval Noah Harari