Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

When a person is discouraged, he loses self-control and patience

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

Life should play background music just as in the movies.

I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.