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Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's unfair.

I love Oreos.

An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of the earnings I produce. The business that goes with that level of dividend is a business that has more predictability, more stability.

With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.

Today, public companies don't like the idea of conglomerates. People want to buy something in which they know where they are putting their money - into the food business or the oil and gas business. They don't want to put their money into a hodge-podge as a general rule.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.

Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.

We're only going to invest our shareholders' money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.

If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a lot of money. But that is not the case. They keep raising the prices to the point when the odds change.