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

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 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.

You may have to risk your own life to make such a historic accomplishment.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

Everyone is ready to celebrate your hard work and accomplishments.