It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

You need a government that believes in government. It also believes in markets and wants to give markets the best, the greatest opportunity, but is trying to govern well.

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union.