Each person has his strong point.
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.
One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.
If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.
Men make history, not the other way around.
Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
Freedom is participation in power.
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. . . They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.