Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

If you think the market’s 'too high' wait 'til you see it 20 years from now.

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.

The sky is not the limit. Your mind is

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.