Benjamin Quotes

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.

Never take anything for granted.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

Man is what his dreams are.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.

Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

Success is the residue of planning.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.

It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

Success is the child of audacity.

Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.