If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Some suggestions for you :

We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

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.

I believe in giving my kids enough so they can do anything, but not so much that they can do nothing.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Value is what you get.

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no' to almost everything.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

Its only when the tide goes out that you learn whos been swimming naked.