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.

It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world.

Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.

I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.

Thats your best friend and your worst enemy your own brain.

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.

We heard about people who went backstage at dog shows with scissors and cut parts of a poodle's hair off to sabotage the dog.

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be someone else.