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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

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

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

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

Remember that credit is money.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

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

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

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

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.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

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

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.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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

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.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

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

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?

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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

A penny saved is two pence clear.

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

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

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

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.

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

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.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

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.

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

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

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