"Don't bottom fish."

"The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy."

"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. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'"

"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 don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me."

"If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing."

"You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets."

"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it."

"Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business."

"I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies."

"Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate."

"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."