No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.