Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

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

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

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

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.