"Stop pityin' your inner fool"

Mr. T

Bernard Baruch
Show me the charts, and I'll tell you the news.

Have an opinion on what the market should do but don't decide what the market will do.

Be happy with a percentage of the move.

"Son, be good. And if you can't be good, be carefull. And if you can't be carefull, name it after me"

Mr. Page

If eight or ten people place their hands on your head and push you down, your knees will buckle no matter how strong you are. The crowd may be stupid, but they are stronger than you. Crowds have the power to create trends. Never buck a trend. If a trend is up, you should only buy or stand aside. Never sell short because “prices are too high” — never argue with the crowd. You do not have to run with the crowd — but you should never run against it.

Dr. Alexander Elder

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Scott Reed, writer

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspirition and expectation.

Jack Nicklaus, golfer

Talent is only the starting point.

Irving Berlin, composer, lyricist

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Mark Twain, writer

Show class, have pride, and display character.

Paul "Bear" Bryant, football coach

Nothing will work unless you do.

John Wooden, basketball coach

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman

It is better to believe than to disbelieve. In so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

Albert Einstein, physicist

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill, author

Accept the challenges, so that you will feel the exhilaration of victory.

George Patton, U.S. Army General

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Winston Churchill, statesman


They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. President

This blurb is taken from Bill Simmons, "The Sports Guy" on ESPN.com. I thought it was as inspirational as it can get....

"Thumbs up to Tom Brady, who has the same look on his face that Uma Thurman had after she left the hospital in 'Kill Bill.' I don't think he's cracked a smile since the Denver game: No more magazine covers, very few interviews, very few public appearances … just a lot of lifting, throwing and scowling for nine straight months. The man is possessed. You have to believe me. And wait until you see how they perfected the two-tight end gimmick. Load up on the run and they send the big guys downfield. Play the pass and they chip away for four yards a pop with Dillon and Maroney. And did I mention that a pissed off Brady will be doing the audibling at the line? It's like an unstoppable Madden offense sprung to life. Throw in an easy schedule and you can put the Pats down for 11-12 wins, even without Deion Branch (who dropped a number of big catches last season, by the way). I know, I know, you think I'm biased. Just wait."

Superbowl XLI:  Pats over Panthers

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

-- Helen Keller

Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

--Napolean Hill, author

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

--Aristotle, Greek philosopher

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.

--Helen Keller, author, lecturer

It matters not what a person is born, but (whom) they choose to be.

--J.K. Rowling, author

I maintained my edge by always being a student. You will always have ideas, have something new to learn.

--Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympic athlete

The one thing that matters is the effort.

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot, author

To acheive great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.

--Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Life is something like this trumpet. If you don't put anything in it, you don't get anything out.

--W.C. Handy, blues musician

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish--it is then that you must not hesitate.

Dag Hammarskjold, statesman

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on...a football field, in an Army or in an office.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

--Henry Miller, novelist

It is surmounting difficulties that makes us heroes.

--Louis Pasteur, microbiologist

All religion, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existance and leading the individual toward freedom.

--Albert Einstein, physicist

"Nothing is factual in the stock market

if it were

then bulls would win because of this

and bears would win because of that

history however, does in fact, repeat itself"

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual toward freedom.

--Albert Einstein, physicist

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing and being peace that we can make peace.

--Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk

You've got to say, "I think if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it."

--Lee Iacocca, automobile executive

I try to do the right things at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

--Kareem Abdul-Jabar, basketball player

One's dignity might be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

--Michael J. Fox, actor

Little minds...are subdued by misfortune...Great minds rise above them.

--Washington Irving, writer

I didn't get where I am by thinking about it or dreaming about it. I got there by doing it.

--Estee Lauder, entrepeneur

Without ambition one starts nothing. WIthout work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, essayist

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much.

--Jim Rohn, motivational speaker

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

--Winston Churchill