One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.
We have a passion for keeping things simple.
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.
No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.
Let's keep that our little secret, shall we.
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Dean Martin is one of my heroes.