If you want to be lucky, do your homework.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?

I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.

Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.

I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.