Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.