I'm not an expert on Islam, but I think there are lots of noble religions whose basic principles could stand considerably more observation in the world of business.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.

Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

If you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.