I am like a chief. I like to taste the food. If it tastes bad, I don't serve it. I'm constantly monitoring what we do, and I'm always looking for better ways we can provide financial services, ways that would make me happy if I were a client.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

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.

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

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.