“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.”

We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.

You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

You’re looking for a mispriced gamble. That’s what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That’s value investing.

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.

There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.

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.

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.

I’ve learned… That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

I’ve learned, That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

I’ve learned that we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

I’ve learned, That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.

As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.

I’ve learned, That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.