AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

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

I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.