Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.
You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.
When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.
Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.
It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life.
. . . we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness.