“Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.”

The Happiest people do not necessarily have the best things. They simply appreciate the things they have.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

We don’t get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

I never invest in anything that I don’t understand.

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming naked.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.

Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!

Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.

We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.