We are all of us made by what we have done, and what has been done to us.

Owning stocks is like having children – don't get involved with more than you can handle.

If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy—if you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a gambler, the sixth sense of a clairvoyant and the courage of a lion, you have a ghost of a chance.

That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it.

Fiction is not an escape from reality but a deeper immersion into it.