I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

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.

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.

I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter; it's cool in the summer. It has everything I wanted, plus it has all kinds of good memories. Like my kids, I have good thoughts about that. I can't imagine living any better.

Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.