Quotes About Wisdom

I never want to buy stocks too cheap or too easily.

They are still angry. I am not. Getting angry doesn't get a man anywhere. More than once it has been borne in on me that a speculator who loses his temper is a goner.

I have found an easy way and I stick to it. I simply cannot help making money. I will tell you my secret if you wish. It is this: I never buy at the bottom and I always sell too soon.

If you do not know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out.

the nature of the game as it is played is such that the public should realize that the truth cannot be told by the few who know. Otherwise they could not benefit by their knowledge

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

My losses have taught me that I must not begin to advance until I am sure I shall not have to retreat. But if I cannot advance I do not move at all. I do not mean by this that a man should not limit his losses when he is wrong. He should. But that should not breed indecision. All

That is why I repeat that I never argue with the tape.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.

The game taught me the game. And it didn't spare the rod while teaching." <(^^,)>

Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the foundation for your next venture. You will reap benefits from their mistakes.

Wall Street professionals know that acting on "inside" tips will break a man more quickly than famine, pestilence, crop failures, political readjustments or what might be called normal accidents. There is no asphalt boulevard to success in Wall Street or anywhere else. Why additionally block traffic?

To a friend, who asked him how to find out a girl's faults, he gave the sage advice to praise her to her girl friends.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

wisdom, when it comes to sin, is that human wisdom wants to cover it up. Adam

Usted es joven solo una vez, pero puede ser inmaduro por siempre. Dios nos manda a ser como niños, pero desprecia que seamos infantiles.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles I am NOT an old lady Just a little girl with wrinkles.