I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

Today we hear that the gains from economic growth accrue to the highest-income earners while the standard of living of the poor and middle America stagnates and the gap between the richest and the poorest grows ever wider. That portrait of the country is wrong.

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does.

I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.