If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party votes gets him 2 to 1 in the house, you know that somehow a message isn't getting out. It takes real leadership.

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

Exercise humility and restraint.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Accounting is the language of business.