I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have gone by. And I have never known what the market's going to do the next day. And that's not my game. My game is to decide whether I'm in the right economy, which America's definitely been ever since that time. The Dow has gone from 100 to 21,000 during that time. And no matter what the headlines say, or terrible things are happening - we were losing the war in the Pacific when I first bought stocks.