“You can learn investing by reading books.”

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.

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.

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.

A person has to keep something to herself or you’re life is just a layout in a magazine.

Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. You don’t defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.