An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.