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It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.
It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.
Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.
No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.
Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.
You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.
Are you really going to let a toilet stand in the way of you and financial independence?
A call for women... To rise up what it really takes for the reward of financial freedom.
The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.
World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.
If there are not too many value stocks that I can find, the market isn't all that cheap.
We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need.
Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.
Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.
Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.
I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.
The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.
Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.
The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'
Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America's financial traits.
Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.
It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.
It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.
If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.
The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.