We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.

It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.