A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

We gradually accepted each other with our strengths and weaknesses. And now, I think, we have started to enjoy our differences more

Yeah! Everything is okay!

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.

On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.