Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales.

The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

If you're uncomfortable with your financial advisor, it's probably with good reason.

Have the courage of your own convictions and don't be swayed by friends who boast about their financial home runs. Last year's winners are often this year's losers.

When a corporation goes into the marketplace to buy back its own stock, it means management thinks the stock is undervalued. This is a smart time to buy.

Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter of your position.

Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good.

Give a cold shoulder to cold callers. Never invest in anything based on a phone call from someone you don't know or whose office is a post office box.

Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.

The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

You Don't have to live forever you just have to live.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen.

If you want to conquer fear don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

We must play as if there are no more games, no more tomorrows.

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.