There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.