In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.
Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome
Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.
Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.
Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.
'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.
Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He simply read the book of nature and interpreted it from the standpoint of his own magnificent genius.
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.