Mark Higgins

“Periods of speculative frenzy always draw both scoundrels and suckers to Wall Street, the way a three-alarm fire attracts onlookers and pickpockets.”
― Robert Sobel, The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market

“All the genius I have lives in this: when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded by it. Then the effort that I've made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of thought and labor.”
― Alexander Hamilton

“In the history of every great catastrophe, you'll find some masterly bit of stupidity set fire to the oil-soaked rags.”
― Edwin Lefèvre

“Cognition, misled by tiny changes involving low contrast, will often miss a trend that is destiny.”
― Charlie Munger, "Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger"