A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

There are always people who will be better at some thing than you are.

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.