I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.

When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.