Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized.

I've never bought a stock unless, in my view, it was on sale.

Successful stocks don't tell you when to sell. When you feel like bragging, it's probably time to sell.

I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.

An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance has been vindicated. If they sell it, they lose bragging rights.

I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.

Investment success does not require glamour stocks or bull markets.

The baskets start at $25 and] the sky's the limit, I've done baskets worth hundreds of dollars. At that price, they are putting in luxury items.

The wisest use of these skills is to develop habits, lives, and loves, not to use them just occasionally in single interactions.

Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

We love things that are convenient.

I lead a very conventional life.

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.