Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.

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.

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

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.

Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.

Architecture aims at Eternity

I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

And I swear that I don't have a gun.

I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem

Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.