Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

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.

Don't tell me the sky is the limit - there's footprints on the Moon. - Overheard at a flee market.

We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell.

I spend one evening with a handsome merman, and I become a silly mermaid with a crush.

Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

Peace for the whole world begins with a smile in your own heart.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.