The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

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.

No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets past that front door unless they come bearing one of two things: food or cleaning products!

The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Who designed this world we live in?

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.