Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

Today is a gift to use wisely I can't save it or waste it. It is my choice. I am thankful for the day. Each day matters.

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

Surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself!