History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.