I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.