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If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

Invest as efficiently as you can, using low-cost funds that can be bought and held for a lifetime.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

A true capitalist doesn't have a job, because other people and other people's money work for them.

Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.

If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

The government has to be flexible in Air India sale price, structure, and employee management plan.

Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in.

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be.

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

Many people start a business only to make money. Just to make money is not a strong enough mission.

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.

The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

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