It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.

Don't bottom fish.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who’ve been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

In our society, it’s been the men who’ve handled most of the finances, and the women who’ve stood by and watched men botch things up.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we’ll get somewhere.

I don’t go near the money and the money doesn’t go near me.

I’ve always said, the key organ here isn’t the brain, it’s the stomach. When things start to decline – there are bad headlines in the papers and on television – will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?

That’s not to say there’s no such thing as an overvalued market, but there’s no point worrying about it.

What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn’t the market. It’s the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.