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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Random Thoughts

The appeal in all booms is always frankly to the gambling instinct aroused by cupidity and spurred by pervasive prosperity. People who look for easy money invariably pay for the priviledge of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

- Edwin Lef่vre
http://books.google.com/books?id=HT5c4rPK59EC&dq=Reminiscences+of+a+Stock+Operator&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=FXNFbx8DBg&sig=ZbquhqvW_KaWlEQ8-fXS

He was spot on.

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