Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

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.

Nothing brings to life again a forgotten memory like a fragrance.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

I can rap; that's what I was originally really good at.

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a wonderful way to experience the world.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.