A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your “feeling.”

The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.