I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.

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.

I don't believe in a sense of home.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.