The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.