Benjamin Quotes

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

Don't cry over spilled milk

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

Little things affect little minds.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Applause waits on success.

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

High valuations entail high risks.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.

There is no little enemy

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.