What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Let’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

If you are a professional player and you are playing in the top professional league, you are sorted financially, which is good.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.