When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

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.

Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.

‎Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.

The weariest night the longest day sooner or later must perforce come to an end.

You go through things sometimes that make you aware of the really good things in life.

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again.

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

John Kerry announced that he and his wife are leaving on a week-long vacation. He's going to take her back to the place where he first proposed to her - at her bank.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.