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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world.
"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.
If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.
Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.
I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.
Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.
The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for.
The best rule for philanthropy is to give until it hurts, as much as you can, because none of us can get through life all by ourselves.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.
A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it.
There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.
The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.
Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.
I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.'
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.
Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.
You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.
If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.
Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.
Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".
You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.
I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.