If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings.... I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?

It means zero to be against greed.

What the White House is trying to do is racialize all politics and they're especially trying to tell the African-American voter that the GOP is against letting them have a chance at a good life in this economy, and that's just a complete lie.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.