Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

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.

When we quarrel how we wish we had been blameless.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

doctor to stout patient: You've been swallowing your food again.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

Gabrielle Union is my best friend.

I think the marketing needs work.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

Love isn't complicated, people are.

How many things are there which I do not want.