“Become more humble as the market goes your way.”

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

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.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!

At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.

My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

One of the most important things for me is my family. You know, they keep me grounded, they keep me humble. They always made sacrifices with me.

That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.

I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true.