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If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

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.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

In fact, I have a problem with too much money... I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.

[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.