“I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.”

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven 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 talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other.

The way you create deflation is you create an asset bubble.

The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

One thing we all need to realize – the fear is in your mind. The fear is what we have created. If we created it, we have the antidote to destroy it!

I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.