I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.

It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?