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.

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.

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.

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let’s dig deep.'

Your work style is describe You

Failure is not an option.

Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.

What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle.

That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

Light weight ... Yeah buddy!