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.

I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.