Occupation: Financier Birth: August 19, 1870 Death: June 20, 1965
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter..
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why..
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of sa….
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail..
Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking..
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts..
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk..
In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose.
Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job..
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them..
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers..
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..
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 b….
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology..
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of….
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better….
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if….
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of po….
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world..
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 in….
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing..