Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

Friends can speed up your steps or slow down your pace. Leaders choose friends wisely

It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

When America has been discovered in America it will be discovered in Europe. They are looking for America now.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.

We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.

When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.