One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

Can you know you can have institutions that put curbs on that in various ways, and actually what the banks, you know, they have various capital ratios and that sort of thing, but the banks got around them, I mean, they set up sieves and that sort of thing just to get more leverage. People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at X.

I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.