“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.

The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.

In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

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

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that’s difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God’s omnipotency.

The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look’d upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.