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.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.