The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.

She could not bring herself to turn away from the night sky, for the stars and the blackness were the only escape she had when old faded memories returned to haunt her.

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole.

Hire for attitude, train for skill.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind