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

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.

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?

In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.

I scrutinized his face for honesty and then looked away. He was either a lunatic, a really good liar, or he was actually telling the truth.

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph.

The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.

Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.