I'd rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation consultant.

When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier.

I don't want to understand Facebook.

This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding.