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

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

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

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.

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