Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.