Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

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.

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.

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 person with a big ego usually knows very little.

I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.

I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it.

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

I don't stand back and judge - I do.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

Words divide, pictures unite.