Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.

The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.

There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.

99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.

You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.

If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.

Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.

All the things that make us human make us terrible investors and you have to understand what they are and how to avoid them.

Dharma is found because one cannot create what is already there.

My favorite animal is steak.

...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even sometimes hear that we went to HLS (Hogwarts Law School).

You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.

I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.

The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.