The Best Trading Proverbs

"I am not an optimist, nor pessimist, but possibilist"
- Max Lerner

 

"Those who have not studied the past are bound to repeat it"
- George Santayana

 

If I took onboard all these wise sayings would I become an ace trader or a mental case ?

 

"There are three kind of lies: lies, damned lies and STATISTICS"
- Benjamin Disraeli

 

Both

 

what goes up must come down

 

We don't know yet. It's only half way done.

 

I thought her unsinkable and I based my opinion on the best expert advice available. I do not understand it.

— Philip A. S. Franklin

 

"Traders are seekers of truth"
- Michael Steinhart

 

"Speculation is a venture based upon calculation. Gambling is a venture without calculation"
- Dickson G. Watts