Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.


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I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
ROGERS HORNSBY
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
KENNY ROGERS
The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal...
WILL ROGERS
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
WILL ROGERS
You've got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em know when to walk away, know when to run.
KENNY ROGERS
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat...
WILL ROGERS
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at...
WILL ROGERS
The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
WILL ROGERS
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
ADRIAN ROGERS
The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
WILL ROGERS
Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
WILL ROGERS
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
WILL ROGERS
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can ne...
WILL ROGERS
Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
WILL ROGERS
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
WILL ROGERS
Live so that you wouldn
WILL ROGERS
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
WILL ROGERS
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they c...
WILL ROGERS
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
WILL ROGERS
There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have los...
WILL ROGERS