Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.

I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

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

I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.