We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.
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.
People calculate too much and think too little.
Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.
An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it’s more available to you.
Well, the questioner came from Singapore which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy and therefore he referred to 15% per annum as modest. It’s not modest-it’s arrogant. Only someone from Singapore would call it modest.
If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.
I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
When you locate a bargain, you must ask, ‘Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?’
We’re the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.
I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts.
Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
All sensible investing is value investing.
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.