Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of the labor force to produce enough food for the country. Now it takes less than 3 percent. Well, the truth is that market systems move people around.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.