I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.
The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper.
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.
My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling. . . I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
If you don't vote, you don't count.