The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.
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.
It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.
We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.
We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.
It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.