Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

God help those who have the wit to quote themselves, that they may reap the harvest of their ideas.

Who's happy these days?

I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.