Occupation: Financier Birth: May 22, 1928
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrom….
When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits..
I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat..
A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!.
To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and ….
You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level..
A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more..
Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it..
I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I….
The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit..
A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan..
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours..
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates id….
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders..
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Afri….
Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn..
When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff..
Fundamentals make the market..
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12..
A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech..
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground..