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"Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets."
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"He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange."

"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."

"Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market."

"And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans."

"When you work hard in a job that suits your living standards, never greed for fortune because you will distract yourself from fulfilling other important priorities and participating in leisure activities in your current life. You will eventually gain the fortune if you set up a wise investment goal by having pride and confidence on your savings."

"I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit."

"Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms."

"NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?"
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"The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal."

"I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal."

"Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away."

"Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities."

"The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants."

"When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall."
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