Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell read more

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside read more

The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most read more

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price read more

Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.

Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. read more

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. - "Modern Maturity Magazine, Jan/Feb 1995".