Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

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.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.