“The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.”
“In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”
“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”
“You should be unconcerned about short-term price action when you own the securities directly, just as you were unconcerned when you owned them indirectly through BPL. I think about them as businesses, not "stocks", and if the business does all right over the long term, so will the stock.”
“Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.”
“I know that Congress will do the right thing.”
“I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.”
“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
“We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.”
“You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”
“That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.”
“The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.”
“You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.”
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”
“Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.”
“The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.”
“If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.”
“I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.”
“Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.”
“You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.”
“I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”
“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.”
“The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.”
“Does the business have a consistent operating history?”
