Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

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.

At any given point, the chain of a stagnant life can be completely broken, but not with the same mental attitude that placed one in it.

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

There's something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that's done by you. There's also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.

Utopia is not one of the options.

Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come.

When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.