A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

Dogs have their day but cats have 365.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

Don't just get through the day, get FROM the day

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.