“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience.

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

The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

The key to success is emotional stability.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identified with man’s freedom. ‘That a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.

It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.

As you take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind, you will discover a nice benefit: you’re everyday, ordinary life will begin to seem far more extraordinary.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.