A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.
Change is the investor's only certainty.
If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.
The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes.
No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.
Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and those who have directed its affairs throughout its existence. If you want to have an understanding of any business, it is important to know the background of the people who started it and directed its past and the hopes and ambitions of those who are planning its future.
It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.
I have the kind of show that reminds you of your problems, and then I talk about other problems you didn't even know you had until tonight.
Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.
Those who won our independence. . . valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.