Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
I made my money by selling too soon.
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, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly." My philosophy is like that man's. I take the long-range view.
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
Never answer a critic, unless he's right.
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. 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.
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Never follow the crowd.
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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