Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.

I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.