Any Fool Can Buy A Company; Just

It's Not Just Buying The Company. Sure, We Picked The Right Companies, And We Picked The Right Management And, Most Importantly, We've Given Them The Right Incentive To Perform.

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.

I've Been In A Hurry All My Life. I've Been In A Hurry To Succeed, And In A Hurry To Prove Myself.

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.

One, I Love The Creativity. I Love The Ability To Create A Capital Structure That Is Appropriate For A Company, No Matter What Field It Happens To Be In.