If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

One-man regimes belong to old eras

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.