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

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

There is always safety in valor.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

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

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

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Money has a language of its own.

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.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Fortune befriends the bold.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That’s the biggest risk I’ve taken so far.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Political courage is not political suicide.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

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

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

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

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.