It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Most people inherit success and fame

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none