There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.