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01 / belief
“I think he was the greatest American, and I think he was the kind of person that would be an interesting interviewee.”
02 / belief
“I don’t think there’s any one formula for doing it, but I think we have to convince legislators and other government administrators that the arts aren’t an afterthought that’s a nice little thing off to the side, and it’s not going to help little Johnny or little Janie be a better person by seeing good museums, and so forth.”
03 / belief
“I think mentors can be helpful to you, for sure, but I wouldn’t obsess over having a mentor if you can’t find somebody that’s going to be helpful.”
04 / belief
“On the whole, remember, the country’s kind of split down the middle politically, left and right, and, I suspect, college populations.”
05 / commitment
“Given the fact that they have a different type of capitalist system than we do — but they have a capitalist system, I would say — given their population base and their technology strengths, I think that we will have to recognize at 25 years from now, it’s unlikely we’ll be the biggest economy in the world.”
06 / belief
“I think art museums and all museums are good, and this is the reason: The human brain has not yet evolved to the point where, if you see a picture of the Mona Lisa on a computer slide, it’s the same experience as going to the Louvre and seeing it in person because before you go to the Louvre, while you’re there, and afterwards, you’re more likely to read about it.”
07 / belief
“To be a good lawyer, I think you have to have attention to detail as opposed to the big picture sometimes.”
08 / commitment
“” I remember — I won’t mention his name, but a very famous businessman said when he was 93 years old, “I’m going to give away $400 million to my college upon my death.”
09 / belief
“I think that most talented people right now — probably a lot of those people are going into entrepreneurial startups, which you could argue that’s financial, but basically, they’re entrepreneurs.”
10 / uncertainty
“James Harden is obviously an incredible triple threat. So I don’t know that they’re overpaid, but right now, I think the owner is pretty happy with the team that he has.”
11 / uncertainty
“I’m not sure interviewing has made me a better investor, but you’re doing a lot of interviewing, it might make you a better investor, I don’t know.”
12 / uncertainty
“You can argue that for some time. Right now, we don’t know whether it’s a zero-sum game or not.”
13 / belief
“COVID has probably increased the dropout rate, and obviously, there’re a lot of family pressures and other things to do to support families in the case of lower-income people. It’s unfortunate because I think higher education is really the pathway, in my view, to a happier life and a more successful life.”
14 / belief
“” The multimillionaires probably didn’t have as much luck as the billionaires did, I suspect, if making money is considered a matter of luck, and I guess some people would consider it that.”
15 / belief
“In the end, I think crime just took over, and the poverty rate just accelerated, and just so many endemic problems.”
16 / evaluation
“I think a lot of people won’t go into government service now because you have to sell all your assets if you go into government service, and that’s a barrier to some people.”
17 / recommendation
“Put 1 percent or 2 percent or 3 percent of your net worth in, have fun watching the stocks go up or the currencies go up and down, but don’t put in 50 percent of your money because I think that’s — it’s likely to be a fool’s errand.”
18 / evaluation
“Google, Facebook, Microsoft have gigantic lobbying operations now because they realize that the government of the United States can impact their businesses in a way that they didn’t probably realize when they first started these companies.”
19 / evaluation
“I think CBC is another one that’s public. But generally, they are privately owned because they’re too small to be publicly traded companies.”
20 / preference
“I don’t know that $200 million would solve all those problems, but if I could do anything to help Baltimore, it would probably be to use some of that money to incent businesses to come back into Baltimore, give them some incentives to come back in because if you get businesses to come back in, they’ll hire people, and ultimately that will help out.”
21 / evaluation
“Lawyers tend to be very process-oriented and very systematic, and as a result, they tend not to take big leaps of faith because you’re taught in law school to worry about precedent.”
22 / preference
“Number one is I want to see something with my money started that wouldn’t otherwise get started; or second, something that wouldn’t otherwise get finished; or third, I have an intellectual interest in it, so I think I will stay involved, and I just won’t write a check and ignore it; and fourth, I’m likely to see progress in my lifetime.”
23 / evaluation
“When Google was ready to go public, people knew there was so much demand for this that you didn’t need an underwriter, probably, to take off the fees that they would probably take off because their underwriting fees might be anywhere from 4 percent to 6 percent.”
24 / evaluation
“I think venture capital is more of a bet on a concept, more of a bet on an entrepreneur, whereas private equity, you have six months, typically, to do the due diligence.”
25 / evaluation
“First of all, the market — and you are a market economist — people are getting 2 and 20 because that’s what the market will say is appropriate.”