If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.

It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do.

When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.