“So I know what you are thinking. You are thinking that people don’t get what they deserve, they just get what they get. Not true.”

“Absolutely not true. People always get what’s coming to them.”

“I am not a narcissist.”

“I wanted money. I don’t want it anymore.”

“There is no place to put it. It is like snow in New York City. It just piles up everywhere and gets in the way. And then it melts and turns into dirty slush, and you slip and fall in it.”

“It is like anything else in life. You do it for a while, you master it, you move on to something else. But there is no moving on from this. You figure out how to make money, you never forget how to do it; it is like riding a bicycle. It is in your genes forever. You can’t stop.”

“Because people spend their entire lives trying to figure out how to make money.”

“You don’t understand the nature of the problem. The problem isn’t too much money. It’s too much winning. It’s that coin coming up heads a million times in a row.”

“I even make money on errors.”

“I can’t accept it. It’s unacceptable.”

“Never mind the fact that there is a 100% chance that this phone is being monitored. Oh yeah, here is what happens: the SEC finds out who the most successful hedge fund managers are, then they work backwards, assuming that they are trading on inside information, because they honestly believe that there is no way to beat the market legitimately. Nobody is that good, or that lucky, except for me. I’m pretty sure I’m being tailed. I’m pretty sure someone is opening my mail.”

“I’m not being paranoid. I am definitely being followed.”

“People are going through my trash. I know this for a fact.”

“I have nothing to hide. The only stuff I read is from the sell side and I never talk to management. I’ve never even come close to doing anything illegal.”

“The point is that I have a bullseye on my back simply because I am successful. That is what human beings do to each other.”

“Everyone wants to see me fail. You know what that is like?”

“There are people out there who go to law school so they can defend serial killers. Nobody goes to school to defend a billionaire.”

“Ok, you’re right, they do, but they don’t go around bragging about it.”

“The only successful people who people don’t want to see fail are the ones who apologized for their success all along.”

“I told you, I am trying to lose money.”

“I try to lose money by putting on trades that I think will lose money. What do you think I am doing?”

“No, the trades are still making money.”

“I am the last maniac on the planet buying these stupid tech stocks. Watch this, I am going to buy ten thousand shares of the stupidest stock on the planet, VerticalNet.”