The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.

Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not.

Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.