If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections.

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.