Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.