If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.