Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

You hold in your hands the future of the world.

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised