I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

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

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer... The predictability is so high... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

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

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.