Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.

To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are avidly buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest ultimate rewards.

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

An investor who has all the answers doesn't even understand the questions.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

-- Sara Blakely

To be irreplaceable, one must be different.

-- Coco Chanel

If you want to be rich, you must learn to see what others do not see.

-- Jim Rogers

People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results.

-- Michael Burry

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the American market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

-- Akio Morita

I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.

-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore