My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and that's one of….

My father announced early on that he didn't want his sons to be "country club bums." And for a number of reasons, I bore the brunt of that - I have a….

If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress..

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a govern….

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good..

I learned that unless you start working, if you're frozen out of work, you will never learn the habits, the discipline, the values of cooperation and….

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately..

I agree with George Washington's concern about parties: They become an end in themselves, rather than being committed to helping people improve their….

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the righ….

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around..

All the corporate welfare, yeah, it goes from cash payments to debt, to regulations on the competitors, to restrictions on trade, to mandates. You na….

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington..

The only way you improve is to try new things..

Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while….

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility..

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure..

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society..

People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there….

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system..

You can pay certain people more money and stuff but that's just going to be a transfer from one group to another. The only way people's wages are goi….

I don't believe in a plumb line. I believe in the exchange of ideas..