The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.