"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful."

"Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest."

"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."

"I just sit in my office and read all day."

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."

"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."

"Accounting is the language of business."

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

"Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble."

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

"I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life."

"An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us... we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw."

"Starting a business is not for everyone... have a high pain threshold."

"Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk."