I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

My father was the best person i've ever known.