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 can't make a good deal with a bad person.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.