I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

To be a philosopher you do not need to be a professor but you do have to love and understand nature.

I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied.

Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.