“Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.”

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 fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.