I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.

A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.

We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

I'll take the deal, whatever you want to do.

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.

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.