When people screw up, give them a second chance.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

Personally I think people's labels are terribly unhelpful because they enable you to dismiss things.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.

I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.