Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.

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.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.