I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.

The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.

If you are humble you will never have to struggle against positive change.

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.