During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.