I'll take the deal, whatever you want to do.

It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?

Our favorite holding period is forever.

We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.