You need humility to say 'I might be wrong.'

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Pretending to him that she felt something would be easy. Pretending to herself that she didn't? That was a whole other story.

Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them!

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.