Rid yourself of the old myth, if it has been plaguing you, that money is not important. It is important - vitally important! It is just as important as the food it buys, the shelter it provides, the doctor bills it pays, and the education it helps to procure.

If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.

There is no such thing as a future decision. There are only present decisions that affect the future.

Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.

One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.