Traders Quotes - Page 4

• I'm not a free trader, but I am a free trader, but I'm also a fare trader and a smart trader. I want to make sure that the United States gains something. So I think you would probably agree.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, Thinking, United States

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

  Ed Seykota

  Writing, Letters, Trade

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• Most traders believe that 'getting into the zone' happens when you have 'a hot streak.' I believe you can create the zone. The zone is a psychological state. It is when you are focused, disciplined, and fully engaged in the process at hand . . . trading in the zone will certainly increase your capacity to perform and succeed.

  Ari Kiev

  Believe, Hands, Hot

  Ari Kiev (2004). “Trading in the Zone: Maximizing Performance with Focus and Discipline”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

  Joseph Joubert

  Appreciate, Crucible, Criticism

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• 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

  Successful, Majority, Different

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• First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel.

  Gil Blake

  Winning, Pressure, Firsts

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• I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

  Melvin Van Peebles

  Boys, Different, Errands

  Source: aalbc.com

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• If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.

  Muriel Siebert

  Four, Letters, Ifs

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• I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

  Mark McKinnon

  Government, Taxation, Regulation

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• Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

  Jim Rogers

  Mean, Cutting, Tough Times

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• My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Divorce, Successful, Emotional

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• The good traders are the ones who can hold their ground the majority of the month and participate in that small handful of trades that are windfalls. The real skill is in not LOSING money!

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Real, Skills, Majority

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• As developing countries became bigger traders, it was clear that the old way of doing business wouldn't fly. To get them back to the bargaining table, the wealthy countries had to offer something more: a new round of talks that would use trade as a tool to help developing countries grow.

  Daniel Altman

  Country, Developing Countries, Way

  "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wine, Character, Men

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• Traders and Surfers both have to deal with feelings of missing out on the small ones, until the big one comes along. They also have to deal with feelings of staying with the big one.

  Ed Seykota

  Missing, Feelings, Surfer

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• A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

  John Galt

  Soul, Doe, Body

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• We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, People, Entertainment

  "Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next 'Black Swan'". Interview with Ben Steverman, www.bloomberg.com. July 26, 2010.

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• Why are some people like Chuck Schumer, who`s probably going to be leader of the Senate, why is he switching from a big city financial center pro-trader to being an anti-trader? Is that because of upstate New York? What`s going on? I can`t figure this out.

  Chris Matthews

  New York, Cities, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Passion, Greatness, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I think religion is very anti-man. I think it's a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has - to be rejoined with the one somehow, to become a part of the universe. Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

  George Carlin

  Men, Thinking, Natural

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• One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.

  William Eckhardt

  Loss, Common, Broke

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• If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Hate, Fall, Warrior

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• Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

  George Carlin

  Art, Philosophy, Example

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

  Ayn Rand

  Doctors, Titles, Bears

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.263, Penguin

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• Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

  Bruce Kovner

  Risk, Novices, Classic

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