Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here.

It's easier to create money than to spend it.

I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.