I've learned many things from George Soros, but perhaps the most significant is that it's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.

The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.

I think the stock market is going to be the key barometer for monetary policy going forward, and I think earnings are going to be the key.

Courage begins the difficult deed, but fortune governs its outcome.

-- Democritus

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

-- Sara Blakely

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

-- Walt Disney

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear.

-- Arianna Huffington

Short selling is intellectually much harder than going long. You need to have a thesis, and you also need the courage to stick with it when things go against you.

-- David Einhorn

To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are avidly buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest ultimate rewards.

-- John Templeton