Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

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.

Self-confidence and self-will are the strength for a sacred accomplishments.

I am wishing of a memory, where you gave me everything you hadand where I offered you the pieces that were leftof me.

We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.

Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!

Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.