I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer... The predictability is so high... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.