We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.

A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.