“No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.”

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?

Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.

Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Never follow the crowd.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

The stock market is people.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Always drink at least 8 ounces of water or a sugar-free decaffeinated beverage with every meal or snack. If you are a heavy caffeine user, gradually reduce caffeine intake to zero whenever possible.

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don’t go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet.

Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the “three zeros” zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it’s hard to imagine that happening if they don’t have some control over their attention.

I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I’m willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero.

No, I’m not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

Five out, zero in, and that’s the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it’s what it’s about.