"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."

"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."

"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock."

"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."

"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."

"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."

"There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure."

"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."

"If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right."

"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking."

"I never lost money by turning a profit."

"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit."

"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures."

"If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong."

"The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible."

"No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world."

"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."

"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."

"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace."

"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."

"Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others."

"Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war."

"Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people."

"We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time."

"You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government."

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed."

"Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure."

"When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell."

"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."

"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."

"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."

"I made my money by selling too soon."

"A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader."

"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."

"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."