The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
The best investment you can make is in your own abilities.
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
The stock market is a voting machine, not a weighing machine.
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.
Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
The only way to get love is by giving it.
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.
In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
It’s better to own a piece of a great business than the whole of a mediocre one.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
Investing is not a game where the person with the 160 IQ beats the person with the 130 IQ.
Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.
Money is not everything. Make sure you have time, freedom, and happiness in your life.
The investor’s chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.
If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do your due diligence before signing anything.
The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.
The big money is not in the buying or the selling, but in the waiting.
You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.
You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
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