Dario Amodei & Emil Michael ·Anthropic ·26 FEB 2026

When the other side rewrites your redlines into meaningless words, name the trick precisely — then keep the door open.

Michal D. Cann & John L. (Jack) Wagner ·WASHINGTON BANKING CO ·21 AUG 2008

Knowing when to kill a deal is as valuable as knowing when to sign one.

Steven E. Fass & David T. Foy ·White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd ·10 APR 2006

Risk models are tools, not oracles — and the leaders who survive bad years are the ones who say so out loud.

DSP Group Board of Directors ·DSP Group Inc ·11 MAR 2013

Control of the boardroom is control of strategy — and some investors know exactly how to take it one committee at a time.

Richard McCathron ·Hippo Holdings Inc. ·10 NOV 2022

The best risk management happens months before the storm, not during it.

Richard McCathron ·Hippo Holdings Inc. ·7 MAY 2025

The best time to expand is right after you've finished cutting — not before.

Warren Buffett ·Berkshire Hathaway ·1 MAR 2010

Liquidity is a strategic weapon disguised as a boring balance sheet item — its real return shows up only when everyone else runs out.

Reed Hastings ·Netflix ·18 SEP 2011

Five words. No throat-clearing. No qualifier. The apology arrives before the explanation, which is the only order that ever works.

Warren Buffett ·Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. ·27 FEB 2009

Buffett doesn't apologize for the loss. He apologizes for the analysis. Those are different things and most CEOs conflate them.

Travis Kalanick ·Uber ·22 OCT 2013

The memo's existence is more instructive than its contents. The contents are the symptom; the existence is the diagnosis.