It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.

Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Simplicity makes me happy.

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.

A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.