Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

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.

Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.

The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.