If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

Rules cannot take the place of character.

The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.