A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.

Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your mind (with or without one). Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.