The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.

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.

You're never too old to be young.

If you're an open book I would've carefully read through the pages you've written with your life so far, so I would know where you are at right now.

The day my son was born my life changed completely.

For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt must be redistributed.

A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.

The writer considers sayability before anything else.