Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

Warren Buffett · Quoted in Fortune (March 9, 1992)

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

Warren Buffett · Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders (2001)

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.

Warren Buffett · Quoted in Fortune (June 25, 2006)

You only have to do a very few things right in your life, so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Warren Buffett · Buffett to his shareholders.

Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating in the process has always seemed to me to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.” · To Paul Ehrenfest, 5 May 1927, on the race for academic promotion.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

Paul A. Samuelson · Economics (1973), ch. 40

The wrong way is to fail to make the utmost provision for amortisation which prudence allows, to aggravate the burden of the debts by fresh borrowings, to live from hand to mouth and from year to year, and to exclaim with Louis XV: “After me, the deluge!”

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 11 April 1927

“Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.”

“You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”

“A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.”

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life, so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

“Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.”

“Man does not live by GNP alone.”

“The wrong way is to fail to make the utmost provision for amortisation which prudence allows, to aggravate the burden of the debts by fresh borrowings, to live from hand to mouth and from year to year, and to exclaim with Louis XV: “After me, the deluge!””

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