A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper.

When it comes to selling stocks, it is plain that nobody can sell unless somebody wants those stocks.If you operate on a large scale you will have to bear that in mind all the time.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

The public always wants to be told.

The game taught me the game.

In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

The food of hope is meditative action.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

I told my girlfriend that a praying mantis female eats its mate after copulation. She didn't take the hint.

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

When there is crime in society, there is no justice.