Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.

All those countries who keep their aid promises should be proud of what they've done

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.