I’m not a macroeconomics person.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

All art is quite useless.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

History should be written as philosophy.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

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.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

A man should never neglect his family for business.