The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.

I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.