I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results.

The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.

The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.