I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.

Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.