Popular Quotes Through Time

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.