It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

I never try to predict the market.

I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.

I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw the size of the problem. I mean, from were people on that weekend that thought they'd had a solution. And then the hole kept getting bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden became apparent that 20 billion wouldn't do it and 30 billion wouldn't do it and 40 billion wouldn't do it. So it got beyond anybody's ability to certainly to do it in a short period of time.