The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

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.

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.