If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.

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

I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.