I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

You'd rather own gold; not the miner

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.