Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

A book is the only immortality

Death stings so harshly, no escape and hiding zone from it.

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea…does that mean that 1 enjoys it?

These people want you to quit just like CM Punk did.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

NOTHING happens by coincidence.