Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.

God this request isn't for me it's for my mom. . . . Could you send her a son-in-law?

Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!'

The public has become my fairy godmother.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

So many Christians seek to live the pain-free Christian life. Such a life has no impact.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia.