“You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.”

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.

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’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.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

You don’t reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.

The more you think, the more time you have.

We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.