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.

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.

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

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

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 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.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

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.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

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 was a thug.

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

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

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

I’m a real estate guy.

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

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

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

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.

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

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

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.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

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.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

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

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

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

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

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

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.

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

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

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

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.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

He that’s secure is not safe.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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.

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

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.

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

You can’t regulate every lab in the world.

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

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.