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There’s 20 companies that I have investments in – some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

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.

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

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.