The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Accounting is the language of business.

We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.

I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.