"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

"History is more or less bunk."

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

"Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

"Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties."

"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."