An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.

If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.