I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.
After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.
Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.
I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.
If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.
For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S. I. V. ’s — I didn’t see any of that coming until it happened.
In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.
I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love. . . . So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
I am only about winning and getting better.
We must lose what we think we know so that we can come to see what we least expect.
Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility. . . You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.