Genius Is Often A Short Way Of

A Young Financial Writer Once Brought Ridicule Upon Himself By Stating That A Certain Company Had Nothing To Commend It Except Excellent Earnings. Well, There Are Companies Whose Earnings Are Excellent But Whose Stocks I Would Never Recommend. In Selecting Investments, I Attach Prime Importance To The Men Behind Them. I'd Rather Buy Brains And Character Than Earnings. Earnings Can Be Good One Year And Poor The Next. But If You Put Your Money Into Securities Run By Men Combining Conspicuous Brains And Unimpeachable Character, The Likelihood Is That The Financial Results Will Prove Satisfactory.

Our Future And Our Fate Lie In Our Wills More Than In Our Hands, For Our Hands Are But The Instruments Of Our Wills.

It Is When Things Go Hardest, When Life Becomes Most Trying, That There Is The Greatest Need For Having A Fixed Goal, For Having An Air Castle That The Outside World Cannot Wreck. When Few Comforts Come From Without, It Is All The More Necessary To Have A Fount To Draw From Within. And The Man Or Woman Who Has A Star Toward Which To Press Cannot Be Thrown Off The Course, No Matter How The World May Try, No Matter How Far Things Seem To Be Wrong.

The Man Of Fixed Ingrained Principles Who Has Mapped Out A Straight Course, And Has The Courage And Self-control To Adhere To It, Does Not Find Life Complex. Complexities Are All Of Our Own Making.

Bragging Often Precedes Begging.