PLAY IT AGAIN, JOHN

摘要

Sometimes a telling quote can be more profound than the entire book... and it certainly involves less reading. The Banker's editors sat down and thought about the books, throughout history, that have had the most impact on business and finance and the most famous quotes from them. Here is their Top 10 selection. The star choice, which is especially relevant to the current crisis, is from the late John Kenneth Galbraith's A Short History of Financial Euphoria. "There can be few fields of human endeavour in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance. Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of those who do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present."