If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.

I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw the size of the problem. I mean, from were people on that weekend that thought they'd had a solution. And then the hole kept getting bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden became apparent that 20 billion wouldn't do it and 30 billion wouldn't do it and 40 billion wouldn't do it. So it got beyond anybody's ability to certainly to do it in a short period of time.

I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

Be brave when others are afraid, and afraid when others are brave.

The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.