If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

Salesmen always need something to sell.

This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing...

Explanations are ghosts of guilt, shadows of sympathy, and I have no use for them.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.