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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

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

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?

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

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

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

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

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

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

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

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

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

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

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

We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

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

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

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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.

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

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

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

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

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.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

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

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

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

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.