Trading Maxims/Quotes

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

  1. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -George Bernard Shaw
     
    #61     Jan 3, 2002
  2. "This is the highest wisdom that i own... freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew." -Goethe
     
    #62     Jan 3, 2002
  3. shyhh

    shyhh

    'In the long run, we'll all be dead...'

    - John Maynard Keynes
     
    #63     Jan 3, 2002
  4. Rigel

    Rigel

    Every exit is an entry somewhere.
     
    #64     Jan 3, 2002
  5. Rigel

    Rigel

    People only see what they are prepared to see.
     
    #65     Jan 3, 2002
  6. deepitm

    deepitm

    As I used to sit in a monthly meeting at an Engineering firm I worked at (before I became a trader) - the CEO would tell us that the good times were just around the corner (I think we traveled in a circle then). While he was talking, the following thought always played over and over in my mind:

    "Hope is not a strategy."
     
    #66     Jan 3, 2002
  7. ''Studing and finding as many indicating factors as possible............and remain in the game.................seek and you shall find.''................................Former market maker , prop trader,author,Rogan LaBier.........................................
     
    #67     Jan 3, 2002
  8. Man is extremely uncomfortable with uncertainty. To deal with his discomfort, man tends to create a false sense of security by substituting certainty for uncertainty. It becomes the herd instinct.

    --Bennet W. Goodspeed, The Tao Jones Averages
     
    #68     Jan 3, 2002
  9. Magna

    Magna Administrator

    Winners find a way to win. Losers find a way to lose.
     
    #69     Jan 3, 2002
  10. Magna

    Magna Administrator

    Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

    Henry Ford
     
    #70     Jan 3, 2002