“The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.”

Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.

Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking

We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…

Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.

If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

It’s the Tiger Woods effect. What he was able to accomplish at such a young age – he drew me to the game, and I can only speak for myself, but a lot of the players that are my age saw Tiger in his prime when we were all teenagers.

The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.

The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.