Quotes About Wisdom

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

The ultimate success of Masonry depends on the intelligence of her disciples.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.