Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.