If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.