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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.