We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.

The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.