“Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.”

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Never follow the crowd.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

The stock market is people.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.

So we’re talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people’s lives in history.

In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. … Why does he get so much publicity? Because he’s white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

I’ve got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I’m starting to enter my prime.

They didn’t have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.