- It's not what age at which you retire, it's what income level
- Investment opportunities always come around again, lost capital does not
- Procrastination is the biggest enemy of solid financial planning
- The eighth wonder of the world is compound interest
- The trend is your friend
- Don't try to push a rope
- Take some money off the table
- Diversity, not diversification
- Don't let emotions drive investment decisions
- No one can predict the future
- A 100% gain equals a 50% loss
- Making money takes time, patience and persistence
- He who fails to plan, plans to fail
- It's easy to be good in a bull market, but a genius performs well in bear markets
- In bad economic times, it is the return of your money, not the return on your money
- If you lose 50% of your money, it takes 6 years of 12% returns to recover
- A bull market takes the escalator up but bear markets take the elevator down