“Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.”

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.

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.

In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

In a few days, newspapers can make a trivial incident in itself a dangerous issue that shakes the state, and it can also bring vital issues to the fore into oblivion, so that the public will soon forget them.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

There is no news media. There’s simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.