It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.