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I'm a bull on Berkshire Hathaway. There may be some considerable waiting, but I think there are some good days ahead.
If you can't use dividends, it's not a bad thing to give it back to your shareholders. They'll use it somewhere else.
I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'
Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.
I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.
You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.
To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.
More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.
The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.
It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.
I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.
Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someones wings to grab onto.
Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.
When there is a crisis, that's when some are interested in getting out and that's when we are interested in getting in.
We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.
I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.
I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.
The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same.
I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else
The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues.
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
We represent companies from around the world who say, "I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan."
That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.
We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.
In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind.
I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
It's not what Apple and Beats are doing today. It's what we believe pairing the two together can produce for the future.
I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.
You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.
Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.
Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.
Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'
I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.