Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

If you want to be lucky do your homework.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.'

The housing market will get worse before it gets better.

There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films - control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.

Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

Any film that you see that has any progressive spirits that is made by any people of color or a woman is a triumph in and of itself. Whether you agree with it or not. Something that comes with some point of view and some personal perspective from a woman or a person of color is a unicorn.

The world can only change from within.

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don't want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter.

I go to the healthier foods that are less chemically treated. I am drinking lots of water to get rid of the toxins in my body. It's a natural flushing. Water flushes your system and is also very good for your skin.

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

Traveling a lot and touring, you're in and out of hotels, and you don't have any comforts around.

Limits are very important.