“Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.”

Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?

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.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.

Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.

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