💬 Quotes

"Fortune is like the market, where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

"I am sorry, my friend. But there are times when a man must choose between his ease and his integrity."

"Life is a stage, and it matters little what part one plays so long as one plays it with grace and courage."

"A great wrong does not right itself; it requires the weight of human resolve to tip the scales back toward justice."

"The heart has its own reasons, independent of logic or circumstance, and it holds fast to what it loves despite the world."

"In the quiet moments before the storm, a man discovers the true measure of his spirit."

"Freedom is not a gift bestowed by the powerful; it is a hard-won conquest of the human spirit."

"If you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do."

"The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worthwhile, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples."

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it."

"Philanthropy in education has been largely a matter of getting the Negro to accept what the white man thinks he ought to have rather than bringing out what is in the Negro."

"The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, education must inspire to action and fit people for life in their surrounding environment."

"History shows that does not avail. The conqueror has invariably imposed his educational system upon the conquered, thus conditioning them to accept servitude as their natural lot."

"An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative."

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

"The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap)."

"To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder."

"Have the courage of your convictions based on adequate research and judgment. That is the only way an investor can ultimately succeed."

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."