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

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.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

Remember that credit is money.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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

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

A penny saved is two pence clear.

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

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

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.

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

Our favorite holding period is forever.

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

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

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

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.

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.