While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

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.

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

The fact that you and I are acquaintances only interested and amused the ghosts further. Gossip bunch, really.

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.

Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

I was born with rhythm but I don't know if - I'm not a break dancer.

I haven't done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.