Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

Capital markets reward you for what you learn that other people have yet to ascertain.

Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

Risk is what you make of it.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes.

We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.

It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

God put many animals here [on Earth] for pets, playthings and companions for us and our children, and we're still going to enjoy them [in Heaven].

I love Willy DeVille. He's very missed.

Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.

Life isn’t about waiting for the time to come. It’s all about making the most of things in the time that is given to you.

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.