You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

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