“It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.”

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

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.