Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.

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.

She raised her head and stared at the birds with him, caught in a web of awe and loneliness.

Changing your mind and your attitude can move you into what seems like another dimension.

Shit, this woman's scary. I'm glad my manager's the short one with the wispy hair and the shaking hands. Milo knows how to get stuff done, but he's about as terrifying as a goldfish.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.