What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.