Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Difficulty shows what men are.

“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.” 

“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.” 

“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.” 

“Your brain is wider than the sky” 

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.