I would rather throw a viper down my shirtfront than hire a compensation consultant.

Those two guys are two of the smartest young men in the country, and it's much better to be copied by people that smart.

It's worse than that. Those people who wanted to round pi to 3.2 were stupid. These people [the opponents of expensing options] are worse than stupid. They know it's wrong and want to do it anyway.

The cause of reform is hurt, not helped, when an activist makes an idiotic suggestion.

Why don't I kill your mother and we'll split the insurance money?

The present era has no comparable referent in the past history of capitalism. We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodom and Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.