Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.