Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Vision is a destination – a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route – an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step.
Growth and comfort do not coexist.
The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.
A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.
To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order.
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.