“My adversary is the world of finance.”

“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”

“The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.”

“Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.”

“As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.”

“In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.”

“We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.”

“I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.”

“I made my money by selling too soon.”