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.

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

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

Risk is what you make of it.

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.

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.

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!

The king reigns but does not govern.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Have a holly jolly Christmas!

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

My TV ain't HD, that's too real

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

The relationship I have with my kids is beautiful.