Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.

You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

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

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.