The real bubble in China is in US Treasuries, in US dollars.

The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!

One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

Good dialogue is very important.

I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.

In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.

When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.

Local politics matters a lot.