You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.