Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

What happens to us is for the Most High to be revealed in glory.

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.

Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.

If everyone spent as much time o happiness as they did on drama and anger, they'd shine a lot brighter!

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When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

Sigur Ros make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative.

The best way to use the auto-tune is not to! And that's what I do: I do not use auto-tune!