Surround yourself with people that push you to do and be better. No drama or negativity. Just higher goals and higher motivation. Good times and positive energy. No jealousy or hate. Simply bringing out the absolute best in each other.

Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

There's class warfare, all right. But it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

An IPO is like a negotiated transaction -- the seller chooses when to come public -- and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1 20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1 20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.

Investment students need only two well-taught courses -- How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices.

When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1 20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've read Phil Fisher. So I've gotten a lot of my ideas from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don't have to get too many new ideas on your own. You can just apply the best of what you see.

Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.