My father was the best person i've ever known.

Generally, we have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century. And that's a good trend of the future. But we do have to have a system that, as output of goods and services keeps increasing per capita, that it takes care of the people who are willing to work and really are not getting by very well with a family on a 40-hour week.

I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.