A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.