Good Traders Quotes

#1. Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

Ed Seykota

#2. Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong

Jack D. Schwager

#3. One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.

Venita VanCaspel

#4. June 2011 article in the Financial Times titled "Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Bankers' " noted, "The characteristics that make for good traders and investment bankers are pretty much the same as those that define psychopaths."107

Thom Hartmann

#5. 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

#6. And she was just leaving. (Xedrix) Not yet, I'm not. (Aimee) Yes, you are. Adios. There's the door. Doorknob twists to the left. The hinges open in. You should use them. Keep them working. Keep you breathing. (Xedrix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

Nikita Khrushchev

#8. It's hard to be sad when you're laughing, so I enjoy making people happy.

Tim Conway

#9. Traders take a good system and destroy it by trying to make it into a perfect system.

Robert Prechter

#10. There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

Anne Robinson

#12. Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#13. Which makes it a bothering sort of day.

A.A. Milne

#14. I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.

William Eckhardt

#15. When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.

Nick Flynn

#16. You listen to the street traders any morning. They don't shout, 'Nearly-fresh oranges, only slightly squashy, reasonable value,' do they? No, they shout, 'Git chore orinjes, they're luvverly.' Good business sense." He

Terry Pratchett

#17. So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?

Rick Riordan

#18. Street traders were doing good business selling a paper toy which represented a pig, but if you put the paper together and unfolded it in a certain way it turned into Hitler's face.

Wladyslaw Szpilman

#19. The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

Johann Hari

#20. If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

Bruce Kovner