Good Trading Quotable Quotes

Discussion in 'Trading' started by tyrant, Dec 24, 2005.

  1. fxtc

    fxtc

    "Markets are the perfect non-biased teachers of self-reflection and discipline. A survival rate has less to do with war and more to do with the preparation of war's outcome."

    -Jeremy Lyter
     
    #211     Aug 4, 2006
  2. fxtc

    fxtc

    "There is a concise formula for trading success: boldness and humility. The boldness to act on what you see with the conviction, and the humility to realize that what you see may not be all that is there."

    -Brett Steenbarger
     
    #212     Aug 4, 2006
  3. fxtc

    fxtc

    “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

    -George Orwell
     
    #213     Aug 4, 2006
  4. fxtc

    fxtc

    "Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think."

    -Joseph de la Vega
     
    #214     Aug 6, 2006
  5. Yannis

    Yannis

    You always pass failure on the way to success. (Mickey Rooney)

    Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully -- and imaginatively -- for its hidden assets. (Michael Korda)

    :) :) :)
     
    #215     Sep 11, 2006
  6. disp136

    disp136

    A fool can use a proverb about as well as crippled people can use their legs.

    Proverbs 26:7
     
    #216     Sep 11, 2006
  7. Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day

    - Confucious


    Not trading related per se but always reminds me to be humble and makes me laugh (i.e. not arrogant when trading)
     
    #217     Sep 11, 2006
  8. Yannis

    Yannis

    Not Exactly About Trading, But Good Old Quotable Quotes From William Shakespeare

    Sonnet 18

    "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
    Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
    Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
    And summer's lease hath all too short a date".


    Hamlet

    To be, or not to be: that is the question".

    "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry".

    "This above all: to thine own self be true".

    "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."

    "That it should come to this!".

    "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so".

    "What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! ".

    "The lady doth protest too much, methinks".

    "In my mind's eye".

    "A little more than kin, and less than kind".

    "The play 's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king".

    "And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man".

    "This is the very ecstasy of love".

    "Brevity is the soul of wit".

    "Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love".

    "Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind".

    "Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?"

    "I will speak daggers to her, but use none".

    "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions".


    As You Like It

    "All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."

    "Can one desire too much of a good thing?".

    "I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it."

    "How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"

    "Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude."

    "True is it that we have seen better days".

    "For ever and a day".

    "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool".


    King Richard III

    "Now is the winter of our discontent".

    "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!".

    "Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe".

    "So wise so young, they say, do never live long".

    "Off with his head!"

    "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told".

    "The king's name is a tower of strength".

    "The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch".


    Romeo and Juliet

    "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"

    "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

    "Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

    "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet".

    "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast".

    "Tempt not a desperate man".

    "For you and I are past our dancing days."

    "O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright."

    "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear."

    "See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!"

    "Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty."


    The Merchant of Venice

    "But love is blind, and lovers cannot see".

    "If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

    "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

    "I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."


    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    "Why, then the world 's mine oyster."

    "This is the short and the long of it."

    "I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."

    "As good luck would have it."


    Measure for Measure

    "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

    "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

    "The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."


    King Henry IV, Part I

    "He will give the devil his due."

    "The better part of valour is discretion."


    King Henry IV, Part II

    "He hath eaten me out of house and home."

    "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

    "A man can die but once."

    "I do now remember the poor creature, small beer."

    "We have heard the chimes at midnight."


    King Henry IV, Part III

    "The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on."

    "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer."


    King Henry the Sixth, Part I

    "Delays have dangerous ends."

    "Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed."


    King Henry the Sixth, Part II

    "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

    "Small things make base men proud."

    "True nobility is exempt from fear."


    King Henry the Sixth, Part III

    "Having nothing, nothing can he lose."


    Taming of the Shrew

    "I 'll not budge an inch".


    Timon of Athens

    "We have seen better days."


    Julius Caesar

    "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him".

    "But, for my own part, it was Greek to me".

    "A dish fit for the gods".

    "Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war".

    "Et tu, Brute!"

    "Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings".

    "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more".

    "Beware the ides of March".

    "This was the noblest Roman of them all".

    "When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff".

    "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous".

    "For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men".

    "As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" .

    "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
    Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear;
    Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come".


    Macbeth

    "There 's daggers in men's smiles".

    "what 's done is done".

    "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none".

    "Fair is foul, and foul is fair".

    "I bear a charmed life".

    "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."

    "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red"

    "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."

    "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"

    "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."

    "When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done,
    When the battle 's lost and won".

    "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me".

    "Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it; he died as one that had been studied in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as 't were a careless trifle".

    "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't."

    "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other."

    "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"

    "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."


    King Lear

    "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"

    "I am a man more sinned against than sinning".

    "My love's more richer than my tongue".

    "Nothing will come of nothing."

    "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest".

    "The worst is not, So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.' "


    Othello

    "‘T’is neither here nor there."

    "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at".

    "To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on".

    "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief".


    Antony and Cleopatra

    "My salad days, when I was green in judgment."


    Cymbeline

    "The game is up."

    "I have not slept one wink."


    Twelfth Night

    "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them".

    "Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better" .


    The Tempest

    "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, rounded with a little sleep".


    King Henry the Fifth

    "Men of few words are the best men."


    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    "The course of true love never did run smooth."

    "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind".


    Much Ado About Nothing

    "Everyone can master a grief but he that has it".


    Titus Andronicus

    "These words are razors to my wounded heart".


    The Winter's Tale

    "What 's gone and what 's past help should be past grief" .

    "You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely".


    Taming of the Shrew

    "Out of the jaws of death".

    "Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges".

    "For the rain it raineth every day".


    Troilus and Cressida

    "The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance".


    Coriolanus

    "Nature teaches beasts to know their friends".
     
    #218     Oct 3, 2006
  9. ovations

    ovations

    keep it going
     
    #219     Jul 31, 2007
  10. The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

    Friedrich Nietzsche
     
    #220     Jul 31, 2007