Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.
The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.
Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.
I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good.
Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.
Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
My smartest move was joining Google. It wasn't obvious at the time that it would be a good decision. A lot of people, many of my friends, advised me against it.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.
What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
