Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.