Occupation: Financier Birth: August 19, 1870 Death: June 20, 1965
Financial storm definitely passed..
I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%..
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars..
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players..
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the….
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster..
I never lost money by turning a profit..
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination..
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures..
Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount….
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 i….
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves..
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer..
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times..
Never follow the crowd..
Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best..
You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress..
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 po….
Now is always the hardest time to invest..
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves..
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction..