The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.

Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history.

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

I've never been very fully employed either.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.