Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.

If you're uncomfortable with your financial advisor, it's probably with good reason.

Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales.

Have the courage of your own convictions and don't be swayed by friends who boast about their financial home runs. Last year's winners are often this year's losers.

When a corporation goes into the marketplace to buy back its own stock, it means management thinks the stock is undervalued. This is a smart time to buy.

Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter of your position.

Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good.

Give a cold shoulder to cold callers. Never invest in anything based on a phone call from someone you don't know or whose office is a post office box.

Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.

Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money.

Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.

Read over your compositions and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine strike it out.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going

When I was young, I was older than I am today.