Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

hindsight is not a strategy.

Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

When motivation flows, people see work as interesting as music. They enjoy it till they do more than they could have done. Leaders motivate people to do greater things.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

Without strength, can we work to create wealth?

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.