I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.