“Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.”

I’m right, and you’re smart, and sooner or later you’ll see I’m right.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you’re reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

If we’ve been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.

People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.

Move only when you have an advantage. It’s very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.

The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It’s just that simple.

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none … ZERO.

The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can’t beat the market. As I always say, the iron rule of life is that only 20% of the people can be in the top fifth. That’s just the way it is.

To me, it’s obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It’s been obvious to me since very early in life. I don’t know why it’s not obvious to very many other people.

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can’t derive this by fundamental analysis – you must think biologically.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

Minding your business is how you call your power back.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.