Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

You don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much.

The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.

I'm gonna make a ton of money on the rematch, but that decision was horrible.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

I'm definitely hesitant wearing shorts during the summer. Like for a pale person, you know, summer - everyone in the world is so excited for summer, but pale people, we're just like, oh no.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.