I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain." Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: "Every putt makes someone happy.")

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.

There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.