There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

I've never been very fully employed either.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.