Successful Trader Quotes & Sayings

So much for my great vendetta, so much for the tireless hunt for my betrayer. Isn't this how life turns out, more often than not? It refuses to conform to your needs - the narrative needs that you feel are essential to give rough shape to your time on this earth. — William Boyd

A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented. — Monroe Trout

Because a person couldn't ever be good and evil at once.
Little girl, don't you know? The world is made up of shades of grey. — Rachel E. Carter

Paradoxes haunt the lives of born wayfinders, driving them to seek resolutions to the apparent contradictions in their lives, enticing them into the world that is beyond words and can therefore contain paradox without contradiction. — Martha N. Beck

It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader. — Bill Lipschutz

Finally, I found a program that's put my troubles behind me. — Maurice Gibb

Being a successful trader also takes courage: the courage to try, the courage to fail, the courage to succeed, and the courage to keep on going when the going gets tough. — Michael Marcus

The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes. — Michael Steinhardt

You have 30 to 50 times better chances of creating a successful business than at succeeding as a short-term trader. — Robert Rolih

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does. — William Delbert Gann

Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy. — Jack Abramoff

In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles. — Cormac McCarthy

The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary. — Alexander Elder

The single most important advice I can give anybody is: Learn from your mistakes. That is the only way to become a successful trader. — David Ryan

Trading is a sport of survival, reinvention, and perseverance, even for the successful trader. — Mike Bellafiore

When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street. — Karen Finerman

Weak people revenge
Strong people forgive
Intelligent people ignore — Anonymous

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. — Lionel Trilling