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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Remember that credit is money.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

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.

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

A penny saved is two pence clear.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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

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

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.

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

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

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

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

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

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 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.

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?

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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

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