Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

I always like it when someone attractive to me agrees with me, so I have fond memories of Phil Fisher. The idea that it was hard to find good investments, so concentrate in a few, seems to me to be an obviously good idea. But 98% of the investment world doesn't think this way.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.

there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense.