It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.

The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs.

If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.

I've never met a successful pessimist.

Over-diversification is a hedge for ignorance.

Forget the adage buy low and sell high.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

When you learn to die, you learn to live.