Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

In the pursuit of your dreams, you are your greatest assetand doubt is your greatest liability.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Coffee and chocolate-the inventor of mocha should be sainted.

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.