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I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.
I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.
My biggest concern is the abundance of public doubt and misunderstanding when it comes to Twitter's vision and the near future for the service.
It is very hip to be an angel investor now. There used to be a dozen, two dozen guys at these demo days writing checks. Now there are hundreds.
I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser.
Twitter is 'Black Twitter'. That is a brand that 'Black Twitter' has given itself. That's where the hashtags happen... where the excitement is.
It's a lot of fun finding a country that nobody knows about. The only thing better is finding a country everybody's bullish on and shorting it.
I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!
Have rational expectations for future returns and avoid changing those expectations in response to the ephemeral noise coming from Wall Street.
As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.
John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.
Many of the smaller banks have had to get to the point where they now have more compliance people than they have lending offices. That's crazy.
I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.
[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.
Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.
When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.
I may be the only shark who hasn't been on QVC, but I have learned a lot from those folks about what it takes to get a product on store shelves.
History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.
Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.
The problem with tomorrow is that I have never seen a tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist. Tomorrow only exist in the mind of dreamers and losers.
I don't think God cares if you are rich or poor. God loves you anyway. But if you want to be rich, then choose your church & preacher carefully.
Retarget your money. When your money comes in, you need to have already targeted where you are going to invest or doodad temptation will set in.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.
In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.
I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.
The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.
The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.
The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.
You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.
If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.
If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.
Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."
I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.
The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.
I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.