The natural-born investor is a myth.

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

Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.

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

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

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.