Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

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

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.