Kovner Quotes

#1. All things of this phenomenal world are mere illusion. They are worth neither discussing nor desiring.

Yoshida Kenko

#2. The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

E. O. Wilson

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

Bruce Kovner

#4. 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

#5. To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Mark Twain

#6. Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

Bruce Kovner

#7. I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.

Kristen Bell

#8. He doesn't do what anyone expects. But this I know: He will change our world.

Stephanie Landsem

#9. It's not square to say a prayer.

Lee Bice-Matheson

#10. The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.

Bruce Kovner

#11. I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

Abba Kovner

#12. In a bear market, you have to use sharp countertrend rallies to sell.

Bruce Kovner

#13. The idea that something is uncool because it's old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Brian Eno

#14. I'm not a big comic fan and I'm not a big fan of comic movies.

Bob Gunton

#15. Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important ... He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed me that if you applied yourself, great things could happen. It is very easy to miss the point that you really can do it.

Bruce Kovner

#16. In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. It's been an interesting and happy ride since.

Bruce Kovner

#17. If you personalize losses, you can't trade.

Bruce Kovner

#18. Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose

Bruce Kovner

#19. It's more than Fifth Harmony, the girl group - it's a sisterhood.

Camila Cabello

#20. We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Abba Kovner

#21. I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

Bruce Kovner

#22. Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.

August Kekule

#23. Risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you think your position ought to be, cut it at least in half.

Bruce Kovner