Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

He who loves his job, will own it.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.

For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate

My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to walk into walls and tables. I used to think it was hilarious. It was a slapstick cat.