Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.
Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.
Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.
The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.
A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.
Why do people feel things and go places, tell me if you know.
Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.
If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.