Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.

We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.

New York has been, and will continue to be, a magnet for people from all over the world. This is where the arts, business, research and technology converge to create the world's foremost urban economy.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.