I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.

When it comes to investing, my suggestion is to first understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then devise a simple strategy so that you can sleep at night!

If the stock goes down we want to buy more.

You never really know a stock until you own it.

Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.

When you buy a depressed company it's not going to go up right after you buy it, believe me.

Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.

Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.

Be sure that debt does not exceed 100% of the equity.

If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.

We may buy a little bit of a stock, to get our feet wet and get a feeling for it.

You may not have covered your set tracks but it’s never too late to start.

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

Everything I do, I do infinite percent.

We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.