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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.


Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.


If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.


If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.


In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.


Never follow the crowd.


A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.


You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.


I never lost money by turning a profit.


No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.


The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.


The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.


Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.


When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.


A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.


We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.


There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.


If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.


The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.


To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.