I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.

We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.

You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.