Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

It's never paid to bet against America.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won't do anything between now and then except look at you. Whereas, you know, Coca-Cola (KO) will be making money, and I think Wells Fargo (WFC) will be making a lot of money and there will be a lot - and it's a lot - it's a lot better to have a goose that keeps laying eggs than a goose that just sits there and eats insurance and storage and a few things like that.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.