Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world – out of six billion people, more than three billion – do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
We’ve taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.
The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.