Quotes to inspire and reflect

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong

Ricky Hatton

Mike Tyson

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.

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

Bernie Sanders

Michael J Fox

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