We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.

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.

Young people, look to your Bible when thinking about any matter, including getting married.

If it has to be done, it must be best done.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.

Our desire is the warmth in our life, it's not a blanket.

…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about.

Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.