Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

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.

When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal in your journal... and then continue with your writing.

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

Self esteem is built from the inside out and that is my inspiring message to all people.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.

I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.