“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.”

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

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.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.

I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.

Every newspaper feels it must have an astrology column, and even in the Carleton University bookstore this morning, I found books on astrology for sale.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.