Top 100 Trader Quotes
#1. it did not so much judge the quality of a trader's performance as encourage him to game the system by working for short-term profits at the expense of possible blowups - like
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#2. Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#3. 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
#4. To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.
Alexander Elder
#5. You have 30 to 50 times better chances of creating a successful business than at succeeding as a short-term trader.
Robert Rolih
#6. No trader or investor wanted to poke around suburbs to find out whether the homeowner to whom he had just lent money was creditworthy. For the home mortgage to become a bond it had to be depersonalised. At
Michael Lewis
#7. Would I be an Archivist then?" I asked. "No," she said. "You'd be a trader." For a moment, I thought she said traitor, which of course I was, to the Society.
Ally Condie
#8. In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.
Swami Vivekananda
#9. An average trader loses money, so in this profession, you need to be way above average to make consistent money trading the markets.
Henrique M. Simoes
#10. 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
#11. If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.
Bruce Kovner
#12. I decided I was going to go to Wall Street, and I was introduced to some people ... I met a guy who knew a bond trader at Pressprich, and he got me to meet him and the guy that ran their sales department, Jack Collin.
Kenneth Langone
#13. Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.
John McWhorter
#14. Fair enough, Gutfreund had once been a trader, but that was as relevant as an old woman's claim that she was once quite a dish.
Michael Lewis
#15. Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.
John Ortberg
#16. Fighting and scars are part of a trader's overhead. But fighting is only useful when there's money at the end, and if I can get it without, so much the sweeter.
Isaac Asimov
#17. My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.
Brandon Stanton
#18. A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.
Michael Steinhardt
#19. If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#20. Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
Brock Yates
#21. Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?
Robin Hobb
#22. An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others nor sacrifices others to himself; he deals with men as a trader - not as a looter; as a producer - not as a Attila.
Ayn Rand
#23. I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the time. You have to figure out how to make money being right only 20 to 30 percent of the time.
Bill Lipschutz
#24. I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
Iain Duncan Smith
#25. In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.
John Griffin Carlisle
#26. I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.
Alan Sugar
#27. The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.
Michael Steinhardt
#28. A new trader could leap into a market and trade frantically inside it without adding anything of value to it.
Michael Lewis
#29. As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
Benjamin Graham
#30. The Achilles heel of most institutions is that they have to trade, while an individual trader is free to trade or stay out of the market when he wants.
Anonymous
#31. A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.
Ed Seykota
#32. I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
Martha Stout
#33. If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.
Robert Kiyosaki
#34. Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
Elbert Hubbard
#35. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.
John Galt
#36. Of a decent young citizen in a toga - perhaps too much dice, you know - coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even,
Joseph Conrad
#37. I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.
Jen Lancaster
#38. The difference between a pro trader and an amateur lies not in their methodology, not in their knowledge, but rather in their ability to follow their set of rules.
Yvan Byeajee
#39. Donnie Green himself had been a trader at Salomon Brothers in the dark ages, when traders had more hair on their chests than on their heads.
Michael Lewis
#40. Coming between a trader and his book is like coming between a blue-haired old lady and her lucky slot machine: You will be denying them their pursuit of happiness.
Katya G. Cohen
#41. Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting. I afterwards understood that blood is used in making up the blocks. The flour was gritty, and a leg of mutton turned out to be a limb of a goat of much experience.
Isabella Bird
#42. The Flavr Savr wasn't about taste at all; that was just the name. It was about the shape and the shipability of it. My dad's company was all about flavor. His tomatoes are some of the best selling at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.
Sanjay Rawal
#43. Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.
David Livingstone
#44. I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.
Donald Trump
#45. Han Solo.
A legend of the Rebellion against the Empire. Trader, pirate, con man, and fighter extraordinaire. It was hard to believe he was real, Finn thought. Solo was history come to life.
Alan Dean Foster
#46. A good quant must be a mixture, too - part trader, part salesperson, part programmer, and part mathematician.
Emanuel Derman
#47. There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.
Henry David Thoreau
#48. I'm a trader. Under the right circumstances, I'd consider a new boat. I'm not ruling it out.
Jeff Greene
#49. 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
#50. few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of congressmen took a cigar break on the front steps. One of the captive men raised his manacles and mockingly sang "Hail Columbia," a popular patriotic song.
Edward E. Baptist
#51. A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.
William Delbert Gann
#52. If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.
Jeff Cooper
#53. 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
#54. If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds.
Louis Navellier
#55. I have never known a great trader, with his first reputation established as a bear operator, who did not either turn bull or drop out of the market altogether.
William Peter Hamilton
#56. I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
George Soros
#57. The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.
M.I.A.
#58. I have a zillion bottles of hot sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno. The whole right side of my fridge is filled with hot sauce.
Lisa Ling
#59. If God could make a carpenter into a Savior, a slave trader into a reverend, why not an opium addict into an earl?
Michelle Griep
#60. It's the young who will lead us to the future."
Free Trader 4 - Battle for the Amazon
Craig Martelle
#61. A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented.
Monroe Trout
#62. Trading is a sport of survival, reinvention, and perseverance, even for the successful trader.
Mike Bellafiore
#63. It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#64. I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major; most everyone else had relatives or family in banking.
Philipp Meyer
#65. After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.
Philipp Meyer
#66. Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, -
Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag, -
Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree, -
Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.
Alfred Tennyson
#67. Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best. You don't want to seek acclaim. You don't want to seek awards. You want to seek to do your best at what God's given you.
Louie Giglio
#68. We believe we can train any intelligent, quick thinking person to be a trader. We feel traders are made, not born.
Jeff Yass
#69. We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#70. The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
Alan Greenspan
#71. What the hell was an acquisitions consultant? An arms dealer? A white slave trader?
Sarra Manning
#72. Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach.
Michael Marcus
#73. I saw his glance flick over me, like a horse trader assessing the value of a filly. Whenever I looked up the king's eyes were on me, whenever I looked away I was conscious of his stare still on my face. When
Philippa Gregory
#74. Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#75. This then is injustice; and on the other hand when the trader, the auxiliary, and the guardian each do their own business, that is justice, and will make the city just. I agree with you. We
Plato
#76. I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.
Donald Trump
#77. Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#78. Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a fistfight. Ultimately, trading is an exercise in self-mastery and endurance.
Ralph Vince
#79. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.
John Galt
#80. I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.
Anna Eshoo
#81. I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
Mark McKinnon
#82. Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
Imelda Marcos
#83. Free Trader Beowulf - you had to be at least forty and a recovering pen-and-paper role-playing-gamer to get the reference, but it was apt. Google it.
Lev Grossman
#85. 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
#86. The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.
William Eckhardt
#87. The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?" says one trader still at Salomon. "That's easy. Strauss wouldn't stoop to use the men's room on the trading floor. He'd go upstairs. Lewie would piss on your desk.
Michael Lewis
#88. In spiritual issues
(by "spiritual" I mean: "pertaining to man's consciousness")
a trader is a man who does not seek to be loved for his weaknesses or flaws, only for his virtues, and who does not grant his love to the weaknesses or the flaws of others, only to their virtues.
Ayn Rand
#89. Amitav Ghosh's multigenerational saga The Glass Palace, set in colonial Burma, India, and Malaya, tells the story of Rajkumar, once a poor Indian boy, who becomes a wealthy teak trader in Burma, and lovely Dolly, former child-maid to the queen and second princess of Burma.
Nancy Pearl
#90. If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.
Muriel Siebert
#91. I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
Iain Duncan Smith
#92. In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.
Eric Hoffer
#93. Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible.
Ed Seykota
#94. You want to be a trader, come be a trader. The door's open. You want to travel six days a week, you want to travel the world, the door's open.
Ivan Glasenberg
#95. An astute trader aims to enter the market during quiet times and take profits during wild times. That, of course, is the total opposite of how amateurs act: they jump in or out when prices begin to run, but grow bored and not interested when prices are sleepy.
Anonymous
#96. Indeed, is not the homecoming amateur with his vast number of artistic snaps more contented than the hunter, returning laden with the game which is only of value to the trader.
Walter Benjamin
#97. It doesn't seem to matter what we think ... The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.
Shannon Hale
#98. I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
Muhammad Yunus
#99. How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at Salomon that I had meant to screw the customer. People would respect that. That was called jamming. I had just jammed bonds, albeit unknowingly, for the first time. I had lost my innocence.
Michael Lewis
#100. The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.
Alexander Elder
