My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are.

I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape, and this belief remains unchallenged in my mind.

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.

I just really like to find my own ideas.

Read every line item until you get it.

Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.

My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.

Everything I do in investment is just very different.

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand there must be a reason for this.

Sleeping is nice. You forget about everything for a little while.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

There are a lot of young great athletes out there; they're much better athletes than what we were. They're bigger, faster, stronger, unfortunately, there're fewer places to go.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

I ain't crazy, I'm just not satisfied.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.