Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough

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.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

Success is a process, not an event.

Find your focus by seeking all that is good in your life.

I have nothing to hide. I am a servant of the living God. He is the only one I answer to.

[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

Sometimes, you lose (a game) and sometimes the other team wins.