Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.
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.
I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.
No problem is too big it can't be run away from
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
Look, I know these Rick Perry jokes are a little mean, but tomorrow, he won't even remember them.