Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these. That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects. In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business, and How to Think About Market Prices.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.