“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.”

– Jerry West

”Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”

– Warren Buffet

“My message is just perseverance. I’ve looked at life and realized that no matter what life hands you, because you can’t control that, just take it by storm and strive on and have that attitude that you don’t want to give up, so persevere and strive on.”

– Jessica Lynch

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”

– Charles Kettering

“I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the greatest foundation for failure.”

“Don’t be a hero.  Don’t have an ego.  Always question yourself and your ability.  Don’t ever feel that you are very good.  The second you do, you are dead… my guiding philosophy is playing great defense.  If you make a good trade, don’t think it is because you have some uncanny foresight.  Always maintain your sense of confidence, but keep it in check.”

– Paul Tudor Jones II

‘ Your strategy has to be flexible enough to change when the environment changes. The mistake most people make is they keep the same strategy all the time. They say, “Damn, the market didn’t behave the way I thought it would.” Why should it? Life and the markets just don’t work that way. ‘

– Mark Weinstein

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”

– Lena Horne

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!

– Rudyard Kipling