The extraordinary business does not require good management.

If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.

When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.