Stanislaw Lem

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

Will Rogers

"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."

Colin Powell

"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

Howard Aiken

"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."

Herbert Hoover

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."

Stephen Covey

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

Napoleon Hill

"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."

Andy Warhol

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."

Robert Orben

"Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million."

Ted Turner

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."

Henry Ward Beecher

"For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is take-home pay because home is the only place they can afford to go with it."

Charles A. Jaffe

"Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond."

Jim Cramer

"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."

Norman Cousins

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."

Theodore Isaac Rubin

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."

Benjamin Franklin

"He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass."

Edgar R. Fiedler

"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."

Thomas A. Edison

"Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it."

Andrew Carnegie

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

Charles Kettering

"I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs."

David Ogilvy

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."

Winston Churchill

"I buy when other people are selling."

J. Paul Getty

"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations."

Ralph Nader