“You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.”

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.

Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

However bad we can make them, I make them. Any time that players complain about the quality of the footballs, I make them worse and that stops the complaining.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

I was a feature one time and they gave me host money. When I called to complain the guy goes “no you didn’t feature, you co-hosted”. He literally invented a term so he didn’t have to pay me. And obviously that check bounced!

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

If you’re aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don’t understand how she can go so long without food. “Well, I don’t understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,” she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.