Benjamin Quotes

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.

Never praise your cider or your horse

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

We are what we believe we are.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.