The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.

It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs.

If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.

I've never met a successful pessimist.

Over-diversification is a hedge for ignorance.

Forget the adage buy low and sell high.

Your calling can never fail you

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.