“When a man’s success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104
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Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 80
“Many of us are impersonations of what we know we ought to be.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 82
“It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 22
“Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.”
Variant: Sedate ignorance is the last stage of deterioration.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 135
“The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92
“Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 96
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), pp. 91-92
“Dive where the water is deep.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 81
“When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject-matter as quickly as possible.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 35
“Only occasional hours meet our full requirements.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 37
“It is getting what we started to get, not the thing got, which spells success.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 133
“Some talk in quarto volumes and act in pamphlets.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 77
“Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92