The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible for professionals.

Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.

Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems.

Evil surrounds everyone, but not everyone is able to confront it.

Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.

There is no excuse for not trying.

I never really did any disco dancing.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.