The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

There's no such thing as a value company. Price is all that matters. At some price, an asset is a buy, at another it's a hold, and at another it's a sell.

It is better being the victim then the victimizer.

What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.

The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability!

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.