By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

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.

Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.