But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and gas, consumer products, and industrial products. If there's anything that I want to know more about, I have the opportunity. It's right in our portfolio. I can spend time at the factory or with the manangement and learn as much as I want. You can't get bored doing that.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.