It can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

Kindness is soft and humble like water, but it is the ultimate power of life.

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

Our lust for earthly and material things marks the Genesis of our destruction.

We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.