A stock doesn't know that you own it.

Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.