Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.

Some people have subject matter expertise in one thing. Some people tend to be creative but not reliable, and others are reliable but not creative. Everybody has different dimensions.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don't know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.