Will Rogers Quotes

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

I was stupid in a business way. I should have been greedier.

I do watch some of my losses, but it just makes me think, 'Well, you know, should have done this; could have done that.' But that's why I don't like watching it. It's a shoulda/coulda/woulda thing.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.

If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.

There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.

I walked away from acting for eight years and tried to make the choice that I should have made when I was 21. But, it doesn't make any difference. Nothing changed. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

There are a lot of tactical decisions that, if I could have done them over, I would have.

Take Charge Of Your Financial Future. I believe investing small amounts each month in the stock market will give you financial freedom in the later years of your life.

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.

I realized sometime in the early '80s that if I didn't do something - like planning for the future in a way, a kind of pension or something - that if I didn't do something there and then, I was going to be condemned to forever present my three years as a pop star, condensed, as a stage act for the rest of my life. Because that's normally what happens to people in the pop business.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

I'm always running around trying to raise money to make the films. Fortunately, I've been able to do that, but if I can't, at this point, it's not like I wanted to spend a lot of time putting together, you know, you spend a year of your life on something, you go, "What the hell am I doing that for?"

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.