It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much exceeded.

A gullible dreamer is better than an expert doubter.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

I love being in a brothers band. I have no desire to move away from it at all.

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!