I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

I made my money by selling too soon.

Poverty is unnecessary.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.