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

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.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

I believed less is what I needed, what I tried to achieve; I thought less is more, better, the minimalistic beauty of life.

I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.

Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.