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Be cautious and bold. - [Caution] Faithfully guard your reputation. - [Reputation] It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. - [Wealth] Make few acquaintances. - [Acquaintances] Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me? - [Luck] Sacrifice money rather than principle. - [Principles] When there is blood on the street, I am buying. - [Business]
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