Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.

Branching is easy. Merging is hard.

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting