The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.

I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.

Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.