Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

There is a sad end I used to liveeven before I knewthis is how I was meant to begin.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.