You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.

We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.