“Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.”

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.

Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you’re enumerate, you’re going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don’t have to know any higher math.

It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.

The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you’re probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It’s just that simple.

It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.

I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.