I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.


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Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react a...
JIM ROGERS
I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk ...
WILL ROGERS
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
WILL ROGERS
You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
WILL ROGERS
The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift,...
FRED ROGERS
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoymen...
WILL ROGERS
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
WILL ROGERS
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
WILL ROGERS
All I know is just what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
WILL ROGERS
There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you.
WILL ROGERS
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
WILL ROGERS
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoir...
WILL ROGERS
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- w...
WILL ROGERS
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
WILL ROGERS
Compared to them I
WILL ROGERS
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up...
WILL ROGERS
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR C...
WILL ROGERS
My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
WILL ROGERS
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
GINGER ROGERS
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
WILL ROGERS
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
WILL ROGERS
I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
WILL ROGERS
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