Invest in what you know.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.

-- Epictetus

Endure and renounce.

-- Epictetus

Anger, if not obeyed, fades; once it enters the mind and pervades habit, vice becomes law.

-- Seneca

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.

-- Epicurus

If you carve without ceasing, even metal and stone can be engraved.

-- Xunzi