When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well.

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.