“If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field, not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.