Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

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.

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.

Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?