The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves