Occupation: Financier Birth: May 22, 1928
The first billion is a helluva lot harder..
When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff..
A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan..
If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them..
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..
A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!.
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours..
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 plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech..
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..
Predictability can lead to failure..
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12..
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….
You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level..
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 ….
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground..
Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it..
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders..
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis..
A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more..
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….