The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character

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 do things to point out your weaknesses, do things to point out your strength.

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.

I love people who are complicated, and I love playing people who are complicated.

There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.