Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.

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.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I think I have a gift... but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness.

I just want to be known for what I do, not who I know.

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'