Everyone said the music industry was dead. I saw an industry with incredible content and a broken distribution model. Streaming fixed the distribution.

contrarianinvestingBloomberg Interview, 2020

The best investments are in things that people think are finished. They rarely are.

contrarianpatienceAccess Industries annual meeting, 2018

I came to America with nothing from the Soviet Union. Every investment since has been a bet on freedom and markets.

entrepreneurshipimmigrationHarvard Business School speech, 2015

I don't invest in trends. I invest in assets that will exist in 50 years.

fundamentalslong-termInterview, 2019

Philanthropy isn't giving back. It's investing forward. Education returns compound the same way financial returns do.

educationlegacyOxford University speech, 2017