You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes

Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.

When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.