Occupation: Financier Birth: August 19, 1870 Death: June 20, 1965
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible..
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have t….
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,….
Always do one thing less than you think you can do..
I made my money by selling too soon..
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the conseque….
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them..
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat..
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself..
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 chara….
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You….
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 ….
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexample….
America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was enter….
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 embi….
Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people..
The stock market is people..
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come..
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 sepa….
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of bar….
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that i….