CHAPTER XXXV.

WALL STREET POINTS OF VIEW.

A collection of Wall Street aphorisms, maxims, truisms, proverbs, opinions and points of view, follows:

Hear-say is half lies.
Talk little and well.
Control your temper.
Enough is great riches.
No one is always right.
The first loss is the best.
All players cannot win.
Press luck to the finish.
There is luck in leisure.
Cheap advice is plentiful.
A true word needs no oath.
Done leisurely-done well.
Negotiate before slaughter.
When in doubt do nothing.
After one loss comes many.
Wall Street easily forgets.
Great vaunters, little doers.
Learn to take a loss quickly.
Information makes a market.
Nothing risked, nothing won.
For a lost thing care nothing.
Losses make us more cautious.

Little and often fills the purse.
All is not lost that is in peril.
When wisdom fails, luck helps.
Punctual pay gets willing loan.
Let profits run; limit all losses.
Some men learn only by failing.
Losers are always in the wrong.
Cut a loss and let a profit run.
A thing well bought is half sold.
A plunger gets but seldom holds.
Interrogate before you negotiate.
Money is most valued when lost.
Everyone is wise after the event.
At a great bargain make a pause.
Don't buy an egg until it is laid.
Under fair words beware of fraud.
Liberal hands make many friends.
Novelty always appears handsome.
Business neglected is business lost.
After extreme weakness buy stocks.
More sheep than lambs are sheared.
Better lose the wool than the sheep.
It is fortune, not wisdom that rules.
Fraud is built on misrepresentation.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Better lose the saddle than the horse.
The market will be here to-morrow.
Small losses often prove great gains.
Men often seem rich to become rich.
Inspiration often means perspiration.

By the husk you may guess at the nut.
Hear the other side and believe little.
Beware of one who has nothing to lose.
Speculation begins when certainty ends.
The rich buy in a hurry when they buy.
In a traders' market buy low-sell high.
Delay overmuch is oftentimes great risk.
An old man's sayings are seldom untrue.
Get an investment that will let you sleep.
They who lose to-day may win to-morrow.
Opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Illusions ruin all those whom they blind.
The maxims of men disclose their hearts.
The poorer the sheep, the harder it bleats.
A little loss frightens a great one tames.
Where something is found there look again.
He that will have eggs must have cackling.
The best is always the cheapest in the end.
Liberality is not giving largely, but wisely.
Get information before you invest, not after.
Thrice happy they who have an occupation.
Wisdom adorns riches, and shadows poverty.
No lock will hold against the power of gold.
Begin to buy when prices are dull and weak.
Satisfy the rich and they will pay your price.
He is a wise man who wears poverty decently.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom.
Great undertakings require great preparations.
Of what use is a 10 per cent. margin in a panic?

The rich man does not know who is his friend. A man gets no thanks for what he loses at play. They who live in a worry invite death in a hurry. Soft words and hard arguments catch the investor. Put your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. Every time the sheep bleats it loseth a mouthful. The rich are meanest when they buy small things. The rich man is apt to be more generous than just. He swears who is accustomed to his own false words. Money easily made, easily goes; easy come, easy go. If you do not hear reason, she will rap your knuckles. He who prates of his wisdom doth but conceal an ass. Provide for the worst; the best will take care of itself. It is an old maxim that accidents usually help the bears. Lend money without bond and you but make an enemy. The advice of successful men only is worth application. A man with long hair is generally rash and impetuous. A man must make his opportunity as often as he finds it.

Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.

He who sells what isn't his'n, must buy it back or go to pris'n.

Sell and borrow only those stocks which have a wide market.

Some had rather guess at much than take pains to learn a little.

Men of wit and facts never need be driven to indirect

courses,

To estimate a man's wealth, divide the gossip estimates by four.

To grasp an opportunity with firm decision marks an able man.

After advancing markets, and prices waver, lower prices will come.

When prices are high, or there is a declining tendency, sell on rallies.

Much money made before twenty is apt to be lost in the reign of plenty.

He is rich enough who has no debts, and young enough who has health.

"Early information” and a big bank account will be the ruin of any man.

Moderate riches will carry you; if you have more, you must carry them.

The success of a manipulated market depends largely on sustained activity.

It is idle to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

When prices close weak without support, a rally will be in order next morning.

He who takes no care of little things will not have the care of great ones.

When prices are low, or there is an advancing tendency, buy on fair concessions.

A lordly taste makes a beggar's purse; a champagne aptite but a purse for beer.