Leaving the question of price aside, the best business to own is one that over an extended period can employ large amounts of incremental capital at … - Warren Buffett

Our three major acquisitions of recent years have all worked out exceptionally well — from both the financial and human standpoints. In all three cases, the founders were major sellers and received significant proceeds in cash — and, in all three cases, the same individuals, Jack Ringwalt, Gene Abegg and Vic Raab, have continued to run the businesses with undiminished energy and imagination which have resulted in further improvement of the fine records previously established.

Some time ago Ken Galbraith, in his witty and insightful The Great Crash, coined a new economic term: “the bezzle,” defined as the current amount of undiscovered embezzlement. This financial creature has a magical quality: The embezzlers are richer by the amount of the bezzle, while the embezzlees do not yet feel poorer.

If you see somebody with even reasonable intelligence and a terrific passion for what they do and who can get people around them to march, even when those people can't see over the top of the next hill, things are gonna happen