We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

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

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

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

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.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

I made my money by selling too soon.

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

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

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

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

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

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

Never follow the crowd.

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

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

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

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

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

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

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.

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

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

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

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.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

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.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

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.

Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

Although the shooting war is over we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

You can overcome anything if you dont bellyache.

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