We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.