“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy.”

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

The key to success is emotional stability.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

When you believe, you’ll accomplish dreams much bigger than you thought.

You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game.

Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution.

More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers.

The time is always right to do right.

There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.

Never settle for average.