Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.

Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.

Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

If I plug my estimates into the Magic Formula, and it comes out cheap, that's good.

Figure out what something is worth and pay a lot less.

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it.

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

The greater the obstacles, the greater the victory.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.

Basically it's just a whole bunch of blokes standing around scratching themselves

The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please.

And that is why I hate dogs." " . . . woof." --Sebastian and Ceiel