We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general view about reality.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It's just that simple.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.... You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life.

I've been associated with Warren ( Buffett) so long, I thought I'd be just a footnote.