It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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