Occupation: Author Birth: November 6, 1907 Death: April 9, 2000
We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if….
Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living..
[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow..
If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stoc….
Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money..
The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We begin to develop this philos….
Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened….