The best stock to buy is the one you already own.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.

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.

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.

The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.