The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper.

When it comes to selling stocks, it is plain that nobody can sell unless somebody wants those stocks.If you operate on a large scale you will have to bear that in mind all the time.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

The public always wants to be told.

The game taught me the game.

In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.

Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after hisrequest, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.