If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor."

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

"Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth."

"The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator."

"Don't lose sight of the big picture."

SEIZE THE DAY. "Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity."

"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."

"It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble."

He who earns and does not invest will have to work for the rest of his life."

"...the stock market is the best wealth-building vehicle that exists today for the average American. Hell, for most if not all Americans!"

"When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap."

"Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make."

"To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks."

Smart investing doesn't consist of buying good assets but of buying assets well. This is a very, very important distinction that very, very few people understand."

The person who starts simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition."

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority."

"We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others."