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• Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

• Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong about his facts.

• I made my money by selling too soon.

• I never lost money by turning a profit.

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

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

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

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

• We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

• Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.

• I am a speculator. The word comes from the Latin speculari, which means "observe." I observe.

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

• "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."

• "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."

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

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

• "Never follow the crowd."

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

• "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."

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