In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

You don't have to be a genius to invest well

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.