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

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Become more humble as the market goes your way.

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.

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

Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

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.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

If I did not believe God healed, I’d quit tomorrow and go get a job.

Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that’s when you lose

Get a Job’ is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you’ve got to start with the beginning of life. You’ve got to make sure that parents and schools are prepared to prepare young people for success. You’ve got to deal with the next stage of life.

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I’ve allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.

I’ve been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that’s not really there, but it wasn’t hard with Halle because she’s a great person and very beautiful, so it ain’t a tough job at the end of the day.

I write what I want to write. Period. I don’t write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don’t write suspense novels or thrillers.