“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”

We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.

I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…

Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the ‘talking about it over a beer afterwards’ bit – and once is kind of enough.

[We] ought to show peculiar zeal…in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts.

Buddy Hackett [was] talking – this is Hackett, not me – about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families … the look of absolute horror.

Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.

It’s just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is hilarious, so no.

Even talking, I’m super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There’s no way I can fight it.

I lifted up this big ‘ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y’all catch all them fish? Nope – Talked ’em into giving up. Here’s your sign.