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

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 want to have one of the great investment records of all time.

I have more money than I need. I don’t need to work for a living. I do this because I love what I do.

I’m not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making – just the facts.

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

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

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 gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it’s at a party or it’s in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.