Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

The taste of rain -- Why kneel?

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

I only understand realism.

The fears you don't face imprison you.