We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

Capital markets reward you for what you learn that other people have yet to ascertain.

Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

Risk is what you make of it.

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes.

We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

Sometimes the only way to hold on, is to let go.

If you fall, you fall, " Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword

We are all joined in a circle of stories.

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.

People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!