You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature

You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

Ships are safe at Harbor, but that's what they aren't meant for.

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me.

It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.