you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

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.

Joy of life is to be content.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

[On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I eat apples whole, seeds and all... yes, like a horse.

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?