Any Fool Can Buy A Company; Just

We've Got A Portfolio Of Companies That Range All The Way From Hotels To Television Stations And Cable Tv Companies, Oil And Gas, Consumer Products, And Industrial Products. If There's Anything That I Want To Know More About, I Have The Opportunity. It's Right In Our Portfolio. I Can Spend Time At The Factory Or With The Manangement And Learn As Much As I Want. You Can't Get Bored Doing That.

I Thought At The Time That I Wanted To Go Into Institutional Sales, Selling Stocks And Bonds To Institutions. In Those Days, Which Was The 1960s, The Institutional Salesman Was Making About $100,000 A Year. I Thought That Was Just An Enormous Amount Of Money.

If You Have Something At Risk, You Think Differently.

Whales Who Come Up And Spout Off Get Harpooned.

I Want People Who Will Stand Up To Me. People Who Are Not Afraid To Say Exactly What's On Their Minds, Even Though That's Probably Not What I Want To Hear. That's What I Want.