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.

Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.

I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury.

Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.