Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.

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.

I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage payment you know and kids and everything else. My dad had that happen to him in the early '30s.

We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.

Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

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