In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

[GEICO] got to thinking that, because they were making a lot of money, they knew everything. And they suffered huge losses. All they had to do was to cut out all the folly and go back to the perfectly wonderful business that was lying there.

You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.

I'm right, and you're smart, and sooner or later you'll see I'm right.

You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' "So you must have the models, and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness.

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country.