Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Felix Rohatyn, fully Felix George Rohatyn

Austrian-American Investment Banker, United States Ambassador to France, Advisor to the U.S. Democratic Party, Philanthropist

"Money is the standard now. It’s the new religion. We have two religions in this country, fundamentalism and money, and I don’t know which is worse. I don’t see the death of greed. I see people worried that they may have come along a couple of years too late."

"Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty. "

"What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides."