A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them.

I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.