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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

I buy expensive suits - they just look cheap on me.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.