Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.

Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market all the time. It can't be done, too tough on the emotions.

It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.

Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.

He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell, man, it was really worth living.

I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film that I've done.

The Last Argument of Kings.

I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.