The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.
It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome
Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.
Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.
Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.
'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.
The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals
I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind. . . but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.
I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.