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

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.