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

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.

The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!

Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.

Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.