I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: "I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love." But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.