I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.

You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.

The first loss is the best loss.