“I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.”

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don’t expect it from cheap people.

When people tell me they’ve learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people’s experience.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

It’s much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.

The more you learn, the more you’ll earn.

Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.

The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.

Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.