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.

The laws of thermodynamic s are such that if the water is getting warmer - and I believe it is - the energy of the weather is going to go up.

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner waiting for a little flame.

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