You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

Don't bottom fish.

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

But my system for over 30 years has been this: When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30.

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.

If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

It isnt the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker.

The more cash that builds up in the treasury the greater the pressure to piss it away.

Never invest in any idea you cant illustrate with a crayon.

Go for a business that any idiot can run, because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Investing is fun, exciting, and dangerous if you don't do any work.

You've got to go into places where other investors, and especially fund managers, fear to treat, or, more to the point, invest.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

Its funny how The one person youd take a bullet for tends to always be the one behind the gun.

Monetary contractions are attractive as the key shocks in the 1929-1933 years, and in other severe depressions, because there do not seem to be any other candidates.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

My motto - sans limites.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what its like to live without it.