Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.