Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

It is necessary to approach the study of the issue from all sides to find as much information as possible on this issue

She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow.

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

If you can't help it don't think about it.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

The choice you make, makes you.

I see before me the gladiator lie.

If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.