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

It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation or pays no income tax during years of 5 percent inflation. Either way, she is 'taxed' in a manner that leaves her no real income whatsoever. Any money she spends comes right out of capital. She would find outrageous a 100 percent income tax but doesn't seem to notice that 5 percent inflation is the economic equivalent.

Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Returns decrease as motion increases.

The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.