If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

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.

What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.