My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...

What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It’s no more than that.

It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.