In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.