A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you.

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.

First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.