Founder Quotes

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.”

“The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.”

“I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.”

“Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.”

“Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation”

“Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.”

“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.”

“I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.”

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

“If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.”

“I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?”

“Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.”

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.”

“I've never been very fully employed either.”

“Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.”

“I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.”

“If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.”

“Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.”

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”

“You don't have to be a genius to invest well”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

“The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.”

“We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.”

“If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.”