The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

I've seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.

There will continue to be wide discrepancies between price and value in the marketplace, and those who read their Graham and Dodd will continue to prosper.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.