Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

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.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.

O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture Of Thee, the Living Word.

it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!