Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.

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 size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - "I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!"

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.

You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

But just because you’re strong and resilient doesn’t mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.