Quotes to inspire and reflect

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.

The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

In the short term, the market is a popularity contest. In the long term, the market is a weighing machine.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that 'Price is what you pay; value is what you get.' Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

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

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be a more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away

I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Ricky Hatton

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong

Not only a very sad loss for boxing, but for the whole of sport as he was quite simply the greatest and most iconic athlete the world has ever known.

Mike Tyson

Bernie Sanders

God came for his champion. So long great one. Muhammad Ali, The Greatest. RIP.

Muhammad Ali was the greatest, not only an extraordinary athlete but a man of great courage and humanity.

Michael J Fox

He was the greatest fighter of all time but his boxing career is secondary to his contribution to the world. He's the most transforming figure of my time certainly. He did more to change race relations and the views of people than even Martin Luther King.

Ali, the G-O-A-T [Greatest Of All Time]. A giant, an inspiration, a man of peace, a warrior for the cure. Thank you.

Manny Pacquiao

We lost a giant today. Boxing benefitted from Muhammad Ali's talents but not as much as mankind benefitted from his humanity.

Floyd Mayweather

There will never be another Muhammad Ali. The black community all around the world, black people all around the world, needed him. He was the voice for us. He's the voice for me to be where I'm at today.

At a time when blacks who spoke up about injustice were labelled uppity and often arrested under one pretext or another, Muhammad willingly sacrificed the best years of his career to stand tall and fight for what he believed was right. In doing so, he made all Americans, black and white, stand taller. I may be 7ft 2in but I never felt taller than when standing in his shadow.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest human beings I have ever met. No doubt he was one of the best people to have lived in this day and age.

His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing. It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled, and nearly send him to jail. But Ali stood his ground. And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognize today.

Muhammad Ali was not just a champion in the ring - he was a champion of civil rights, and a role model for so many people.

David Cameron

To put him as a boxer is an injustice.

Barack Obama.