The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

Every morning is my birthday and every night is my death-day.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.