“Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.”

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?’

All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses’ asses. I know I’ll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.

My parents said that sitting at home playing video games all day won’t bring you anywhere in life.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you’re going to need help, and you never know who you’re going to need it from.

Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.

What matters is not to add years to life but life to years.

I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.