Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.

I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.