Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.
I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A.T.&T. He said, 'Would you spell that?'
When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.
It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.
I was stupid in a business way. I should have been greedier.
If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
Losing other people's money was terrible.
One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as the lead, and I got fired three nights after the open.
I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26.
I earnestly feel terrible for any mistakes at the bank.
… the most disastrous and the most false of fiscal inventions.
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
