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We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.
We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.
If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.
The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.
With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.
To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.
Our financial system is driven by a giant marketing machine in which the interests of sellers directly conflict with the interests of buyers.
I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.
Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. We fall in love with someone for a reason. That reason is either temporary or permanent.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
If you # fail , learn. If you succeed, relish your # success . You can only know the sweet taste of # victory after many bitter struggles.
Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.
Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.
Enjoy the time you have with your friends & family. That doesn't mean spend money you don't have on them. It means enjoy your time with them.
Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.
The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.
Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.
It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.
Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have to worry about guys like me.
Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.
I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.
Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.
The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.
Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.
You have to say that we are again in a massive financial bubble in bonds, in equities, in [other] asset prices that have gone up dramatically.
If I had to do it all over again, rather than build an old style type of business, I would have started building a network marketing business.
My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.
Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.
I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.
All American consumers have the same needs - to buy great consumer products, with savings and value, and with the convenience of easy delivery.
In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)