“You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.”

Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.

It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.

If the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.

We don’t like trading agony for money

This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

I don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.

Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them.

Don’t stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.

Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.

I’m happy with the way I did my career, I wouldn’t change it in a million years. I got to do the real grafting and learning from real models when I was younger – how to open up a jacket, walk, and such.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.

When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.

I think it’s always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you’ve learned it from the basis, the raw bones, and then you have that to fall back on. I personally wouldn’t want it any other way.