The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.

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.

I don't go crazy buying expensive technology. I'd probably say my laptops and TVs are the most expensive things I've bought.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

I'm not just a fan of the really restored ones, the shiny ones. But I like the working man's cars.

Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Always look on the bright side of life.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?