“Nothing works all the time and in all kinds of markets.”
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 9, Mr Smith Admits His Biases, p. 104
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translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
(original Dutch: citaat van Jan Mankes, in het Nederlands:) Laten we, scherp oplettende buiten alle marktgeschreeuw te blijven, ons liever buiten veel van die dingen houden die andere schilders soms aantrekken; om desnoods onbekend rustig door te kunnen werken tot tijd en wijle.
Quote of Jan Mankes, c. 1912; as cited by Kasper Niehuys in Dutch art-magazine Levende Nederlandse Kunst, p. 202
Mankes' reaction at the proposal of a large exhibition of his works in 1912
1909 - 1914

“The man is nothing, the work — all. (December 1875)”
L'homme n'est rien, l'oeuvre – tout
Slightly misquoted in "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle as L'homme c'est rien – l'oeuvre c'est tout.
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand
Part Three, Arbitrage, This Is Not the Time To Buy Stocks, p. 132
Fortune's Formula (2005)

1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: For centuries we have been spoon-fed by our teachers, by our authorities, by our books, our saints. We say, "Tell me all about it — what lies beyond the hills and the mountains and the earth?" and we are satisfied with their descriptions, which means that we live on words and our life is shallow and empty. We are secondhand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves; nothing original, pristine, clear.

From interview with Rajeev Masand

“Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.”
Hipponous, fragment 280.