When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.

I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.