Everything in life is luck.

• So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.
• But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
• 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.
• Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
• I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
• 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.
• I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
• 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.
• It's always good to be underestimated.
• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.