It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.

Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.