“Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.”

“Innate human tendencies were meant to help us survive the wilderness, not make investment decisions.”

“For every transaction, there is someone willing to buy and someone willing to sell at an agreed price, both believing that it's good value and that the counterparty is a little crazy.”

“The cycle of optimism and euphoria leading to greed, fear and capitulation, giving way to hope and building back to optimism, drives the expansion and contraction of our financial world in a market...”

“Fear is an emotion, not a stock indicator.”

“What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.”

“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”

“Jewish families encourage pursuit of wealth accumulation, high-income careers, and investing.”

“Love risk when making money. Hate risk when investing money.”

“The value of doing something does not lie in the ease or difficulty, the probability or improbability of its achievement, but in the vision, the plan, the determination and the perseverance, the ef...”

“Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless?”

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”