Whatever method you use to pick stocks, your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed. It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stock picker.

Peter Lynch

I have known, as who has not, personal disappointments and despair.  But always the thought of tomorrow has buoyed me up.  I have looked to the future all my life.  I still do. I still believe that with courage and intelligence we can make the future bright with fulfillment.

Bernard Baruch, financier and presidential advisor, 1953

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge

Some day I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

They say the only two things in life that are certain are death and taxes.  But at least death doesn't get worse every time the Congress convenes

I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by 4 o'clock,

Henny Youngman