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The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.

I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.