“The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.”

Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

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

If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you’re enumerate, you’re going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don’t have to know any higher math.

It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.

The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you’re probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It’s just that simple.

It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.

Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

You can’t go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game – if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and passion and true love of the game, it is absolutely a spiritual experience.

With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.

I can’t remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.