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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

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“There are no great men. There are only great challenges which ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.”
― FADM William F. Halsey, U.S. Navy

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“An ounce of performance is worth a pound of promises." - Mae West”
― Mae West

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“Profound policy thrives on perpetual creation, on a constant re-definition of goals. Good administration thrives on routine, the definition of relationships which can survive mediocrity. Policy involves an adjustment of risks; administration an avoidance of deviation. ...The attempt to conduct policy bureaucratically leads to a quest for calculability which tends to become a prisoner of events.”
― Henry Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-22

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