The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

don't buy on margin. The Foundation establiRoger Babsond a research facility in the town of New Boston New Hampshire after Babson determined that this location was far enough away from the city of Boston Massachusetts to survive a nuclear attack. To provide charitable assistance to unemployed stonecutters in Gloucester during the Great Depression Babson commissioned them to carve inspirational inscriptions on approximately two dozen boulders in the area surrounding Dogtown Common.

Babson had "ten commandments" he followed in investing and encouraged his readers to do the same.