“I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.”

“The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.”

“If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.”

“We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.”

“Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.”

“The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.”

“A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.”

“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”