Louis Rukeyser quotes

“The best way to keep money in perspective is to have some.”
-- Louis Rukeyser

Source : Louis Rukeyser (1976). “How to make money in Wall Street”, Main Street Books

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“Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.”
-- Louis Rukeyser

Source : Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street newsletter, November 1996.

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“Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.”
-- Louis Rukeyser

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“I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.”
-- Louis Rukeyser

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“In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.”
-- Louis Rukeyser

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“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”

“They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.”

“Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.”

“Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.”

“The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights.”

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.”

“To justify God's ways to man.”

“I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”

“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.

“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”