Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.