Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.

The Fed can change how things look, not how things are

Credit is money of the mind.

Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.

It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.

This is heaven. You can stop praying now.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

The more often a person tell a lie-the more time u hear lie,u begin to believe it-if it's told often enough,u start begin to believe it

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.