One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.

One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

I remember that feeling of skin. It's strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way', ... That's one of the reasons I was so pleased that the boys could do the IAM test as well.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.