One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do... 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 wait for a situation that is like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel."

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.