We don't like trading agony for money

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.

The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.