“What the market tells you in the short term is what a certain subset of people believe. That doesn’t mean they’re right.”

I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.

In the investing business you need a – a high degree of confidence but you also need a high degree of humbleness and you have to balance those two… Humbleness comes from mistakes.

You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.

I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.

Everyone told me it was a really stupid idea to start my own hedge fund right out of business school. That’s how I knew that it was a good idea.

The untold secret of McDonald’s is that when you sell a restaurant to a franchisee, sales typically go up a lot because the franchisees do a much better job managing the store.

We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.

Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.

Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.

You can learn investing by reading books.

Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.

What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.

I love what I do. I don’t do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and want to do well for. I’m a competitive person.

What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.

If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.

I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

It matters if you just don’t give up.