
Famous Quotations
LIFE
1. "Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom." -- Marilyn Ferguson
2. "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands." -- Richard Bach
3. "There is nothing like a dream to create the future." -- Victor Hugo
4. "Time is the coin of life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful, lest you let other people spend it for you." -- Carl Sandburg
5. "Don't let the present overwhelm your sense of the possibilities of the future." -- Timothy Forbes
6. "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." -- Will Rogers
7. "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really
great make you feel that you too can become great." -- Mark Twain
8. "I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up." -- Lily Tomlin
9. "Most dreams are attainable if the dreamer is ready to devote consistent,
intelligent effort to them." -- Dr. Bob Rotella
FINANCIAL
1. "There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means."
-- Calvin Coolidge
2. "Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, nineteen pounds; result, happiness.
Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenses, twenty-one pounds; result, misery." -- Charles Dickens
3. "Rich people plan for four generations. Poor people plan for Saturday night." -- Gloria Steinem
4. "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." -- Benjamin Franklin
5. "He is the richest who is content with the least." -- Socrates
6. "Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving."
-- Alan Cranston
7. There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there." -- Colonel Sanders
8. "Don't be overly concerned about your heirs. Usually, unearned funds do them more harm than good." -- Gerald M. Loeb
9. "Money is only loaned to a man; he comes into the world with nothing and he leaves with nothing." -- William C. Durant
10. "We pay the debts of the last generation by issuing bonds payable by the next generation." -- Lawrence J. Peter
INVESTING
1. "Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come." -- Bernard Baruch
2. "If you don't know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out." -- Adam Smith
3. "October is one of the singularly most dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are November,
December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, and September." -- Mark Twain
4. "If we don't know what the future holds, why lock ourselves into a position for the indefinite future?"
-- Peter L. Bernstein
5. "You try to be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy." -- Warren Buffet
6. "The brokerage industry services investors like Bonnie and Clyde serviced banks." -- William Bernstein
7. "The stock market is only distantly related to economics. It's a function of greed, apprehension and panic,
all superimposed on the business cycle." -- Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.
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