I'm right, and you're smart, and sooner or later you'll see I'm right.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.