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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.
The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.
Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.
I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations.
The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.
I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.
If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.
For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.
I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.
One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.
An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.
The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.
It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.
Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
If you follow my tweets, you know, my attention and anxiety have been increasingly focused on the plight of our democracy.
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.
Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.
You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them
When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.
Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.
You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.
The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.
If you put nothing away for retirement, I can tell you, to the last penny, how much you will have when you retire: nothing.
When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.
Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.
Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.
Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.
I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.
All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.