It seems like people don't learn from the past.

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

The Lord cared for us in the wilderness. May we never forget Him in times of abundance.

Life tries and succeeds in stopping you with its horrible ways during your happy times

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

We are borrowing $40,000 per second.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.