It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.

I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury.

If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.