The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you!

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

You can hire a bodyguard, to protect you at the bank for example.

Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?

Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.