I cannot tell you how to get rich quickly, but I can tell you how to get poor quickly: by trying to get rich quickly.

On the stock exchange, anything is possible, including the opposite.

Buy stocks, take sleeping pills, and stop looking at the papers. After many years you will see: you are rich.

Stock market profits are pain money. First comes the pain, then the money.

Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet nothing surpasses it in overcoming the hard and strong.

-- Laozi

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Conceive optimistically, plan pessimistically, execute optimistically.

-- Kazuo Inamori

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match.

-- Joel Greenblatt

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

-- Jeremy Grantham

I try to invest in companies where the downside is limited and the upside is significant.

-- Bruce Berkowitz