Trading Maxims/Quotes

Discussion in 'Psychology' started by Commisso, Jan 1, 2002.

  1. ''Not confusing a bull market with brillance and a bear market with stupidity. Markets are markets. You can't take it personally.''



    Mark Kingdon, Kingdon Capital.:)
     
    #391     May 7, 2002
  2. MrDinky

    MrDinky

    The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
    -Walter Bagehot

    I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
    -Robert Benchley

    You can observe a lot by just watching.
    -Yogi Berra

    What is now proved was once only imagined.
    -William Blake

    No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
    -William Jennings Bryan

    If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
    -J. Paul Getty

    The wages of bad trading is death.
    -Romans 6:23

    The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
    -Aristotle Onassis

    We made too many wrong mistakes.
    -Yogi Berra

    You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
    -Yogi Berra

    Wherever I climb I am followed by a dog called "Ego".
    -Friedrich Nietzsche

    I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
    -John Peel

    Even God cannot change the past.
    -Agathon

    It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
    -Aristotle

    It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
    -Winston Churchill
     
    #392     May 14, 2002
  3. ''Write down what you have learned about the market from that trade. I make mistakes all the time'' Michael Masters-top trader-Jack Schwager book.

    P.s. Welcome back Don, I remember you wrote one [1] time your trading company has a few chart readers!!:)
     
    #393     May 22, 2002
  4. "You do not exist for yourself''

    LBR Group,5/1/2002

    mrci.com

    :cool:
     
    #394     May 22, 2002
  5. Magna

    Magna Administrator

    murray t. turtle,

    Let it die already.
     
    #395     May 23, 2002
  6. ''I tell you time is the greatest proving ground for a dream. Don't leave early

    hang out for your reaping in joy''

    Darlene Zschech--Emerald Press, Australia [Her husband likes old books]:cool:
     
    #396     May 23, 2002
  7. LOL Magna. I second that.

    Check out these pearls from Murray T:

    '' Instead of owning wealth producing assets eventually allowing them to buy whatever they want,they blow thier seed capital on wasting assets that shrink in value!''Lou Rukeyser

    ''To supplement his salary[started small-$500]to buy stocks that he understood'' Andrew Carnegie

    "Question-What"s the difference in being early and being wrong in the stock market?There is no difference in being early and being wrong in the stock market-bloomburg.com[3/1/02]"

    Yep, words to live by.
     
    #397     May 23, 2002
  8. doher

    doher

    "when things go wrong, they never go right"

    doher
    1980

    --- walk away

    still applies today
     
    #398     Jun 1, 2002
  9. doher

    doher

    Ringo Starr -sang

    "It Don't Come Easy" ____>

    after nearly 2 years down 65%

    doher
     
    #399     Jun 1, 2002
  10. well, we all want to be as sharp as europeans.
     
    #400     Jun 1, 2002