"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."

"Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does."

"The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."

"I'm not a tech guy. I don't use a computer. I don't use a cell phone. I don't Google."

"I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, just sitting and thinking. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impul…"