“Markets go up. Markets go down. We always make money.... Get used to it”

“The Key point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.”

“I strongly believe in the factthat there’s still plenty of money and plenty of private equity capitalavailable around the globe. What are in short supply are great entrepreneursand great teams. A trading opportunity or a company’s biggestchallenge is and has always been the team behind it. There’s enormouschange under way in every facet of the world. Some is technologydriven, some is market driven. All that change creates unprecedentedopportunity, but to take full advantage of such opportunities I mostlyfocus on the team. The right teams and right people behind thoseopportunities always win. There is no secret sauce. Trading and investinghas, in my experience, boiled down to building relationships andexchanging value. It consists of striking the right balance betweenbacking and interacting with the right teams with the right businessmodel at the right time and with the right amount of money.”

“If the world economy is going to revive, I believe commoditiesare going to lead it back up. If the world economy is not going torevive, commodities are still the place to be—especially with governmentsprinting so much money. Look at the 1970s. The worldeconomy was in the tank, but commodities did very well.”

“Funny how so many rookies out there still judge condition of the US economy on the rigged "stock market". I frankly find it hilarious.”

“Did anyone of those bullish investors ever think what would happen to the Treasury market if the Fed ever became a net seller of bonds?”

“I am not in the market to create jobs, build anempire, or leave a legacy; those are the positive fallout of successfuleconomic warfare. My prime objective is wealth creation.”