I don't have a Bloomberg on my desk. I don't care.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

If you can't get a miracle, become one.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

Unemployment or the loss of income which will always affect some in any society is certainly less degrading if it is the result of misfortune and not deliberately imposed by authority.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

I'm not scared of spiders at all. I'm the spider killer in the house.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?