People succeed at just about anything they're genuinely enthusiastic about.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.