What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the …

- William Mcchesney Martin

Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill ou…

- William Mcchesney Martin

Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing.

- William Mcchesney Martin

The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.

- William Mcchesney Martin