Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.