The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

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.

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

Customer complaints need to be addressed effectively.

The art of hearing what somebody has to say is actually, listening.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

The car goes where the eyes go.

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

Time is the stuff of which life is made.

You want to be gentle with the people you're working with if you know them.

How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?