Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible for professionals.

Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems.

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

Generally ‘training’ went something akin to this:“So what you have to do is

God released his blessings upon us for us to do what He is charging us to do.

The strong survive.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

I liked her better for showing a little spirit.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.