We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.

Capital markets reward you for what you learn that other people have yet to ascertain.

Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

Risk is what you make of it.

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes.

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.

What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.