The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future.

People should always know better.

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.