In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke)

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!