When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

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

I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

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