1 Invest your money in foreign trade, and one of these days you will make a profit.
2 Put your investments in several places — many places, in fact — because you never know what kind of bad luck you are going to have in this world.
3 No matter in which direction a tree falls, it will lie where it fell. When the clouds are full, it rains.
4 If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never sow anything and never harvest anything.