The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

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.

Look for companies with high profit margins.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.