I graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and founded my investment company in 1997, thus starting my professional investment career.

I have three lovely children. They are beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. I'm most proud of them. I love them so much that I will never want to burden them with a large amount of inherited wealth.

The financial crisis of 2008-09 was in large part the result of the so-called 'success' of people who did not understand their fiduciary duty. This kind of 'success' is extremely harmful to all of society.

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

A poor worker is taxed heavily to receive his own money back with a modest supplement. Surely it would be more efficient just to pay the supplement and take him out of direct tax altogether.

If you ask me what I should say to the girls who are making money, I think it's as normal as a guy making money.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.