"You want to know a sure way..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
More by Walt Whitman
“The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.”
“I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.”
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
More on Money
“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”
“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
“Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar”