Whoso be a man, must be a non-conformist… Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (American author, poet and philosopher, Self-Reliance, 1803-1882)

That’s the American way. If little kids don’t aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country? -Lee Iaccoca (American industrialist, Former Chrysler CEO, b. 1924)

Don’t confuse brains with a bull market. -Humphrey B. Neill (Investor, analyst, author, Neill Letters of Contrary Opinion, Art of Contrary Thinking, 1895-1977)

In this game, the market has to keep pitching, but you don’t have to swing. You can stand there with the bat on your shoulder for six months until you get a fat pitch. -Warren Buffet (CEO Berskshire Hathaway, investor & philanthropist, b. 1930)

Companies that announce mass layoffs or a series of firings underperform the stock market over a three-year period. -Bain & Company (Smart Money Magazine, August 2001)

The key to long-term profits on Wall Street is not making big killings, it’s not getting killed. -Daniel Turov (Turov on Timing)

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. -Jack Anderson (Washington journalist and author, Peace, War and Politics, 1922-2005)

There is nothing like a ticker tape except a woman – nothing that promises, hour after hour, day after day, such sudden developments; nothing that disappoints so often or occasionally fulfills with such unbelievable passionate magnificence. -Walter K. Gutman (Financial analyst, described as the “Proust of Wall Street” By New Yorker, You Only Have to…

Individualism, private property, the law of accumulation of wealth and the law of competition… are the highest result of human experience, the soil in which, so far, has produced the best fruit. -Andrew Carnegie (Scottish-born U.S. industrialist, philanthropist, The Gospel of Wealth, 1835-1919)

What technology does is make people more productive. It doesn’t replace them. -Michael Bloomberg (Founder Bloomberg L.P., philanthropist, New York Mayor 2002-, b. 1942)