Buy stocks, take sleeping pills, and stop looking at the papers. After many years you will see: you are rich.

On the stock exchange, anything is possible, including the opposite.

The rich can speculate; the poor must not; the penniless have no choice but to speculate.

I cannot tell you how to get rich quickly, but I can tell you how to get poor quickly: by trying to get rich quickly.

Endure and renounce.

-- Epictetus

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.

-- Epicurus

If you carve without ceasing, even metal and stone can be engraved.

-- Xunzi

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily; not to dare is to lose oneself.

-- Søren Kierkegaard