The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.

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.

That which comes forth, is present and cautions at all times is called ‘Gnan’ (Eternal knowledge). That indeed is the Soul [Our True Self]. The Soul is not separate from the Knowledge.

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans and must be that of every free state.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

I be more hipper than a hippopotamus Get off in your head like a neurologist

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.