Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

I think synergies are a lot like UFOs: Lots of people claim to have seen them, but few can actually prove they exist.

Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Going to work every day was like my hair was on fire and all I had to put it out was a hammer.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Commit to the lifestyle of investing in you first. It always produces the best return.

Be strong, be strong.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Your courage will be tested during the adversity as well as during the change.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

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And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes.