1.
If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.
Bruce Kovner
2.
Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong
Jack D. Schwager
3.
If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.
Bill Lipschutz
4.
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
Elbert Hubbard
5.
The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.
Michael Steinhardt
6.
There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.
Ed Seykota
7.
A good trader loves an active market, you don't make money when the market is static.
Kevin Kinsella
8.
Traders take a good system and destroy it by trying to make it into a perfect system.
Robert Prechter
9.
I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.
Steven A. Cohen
10.
Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange,
brought into being by traders
who discovered that a reliable medium
could facilitate trades that were more difficult
or even impossible by barter alone.
Lawrence Reed
11.
Everybody gets what they want out of the market.
Ed Seykota
12.
The best traders are simply slaves to the market's price action
Steve Burns
13.
Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.
Ed Seykota
14.
Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.
George Carlin
15.
When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.
Chinua Achebe
16.
Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible.
Ed Seykota
17.
The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.
John Lawson
18.
Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.
Thomas Peterffy
19.
If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.
Muriel Siebert
20.
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.
Abraham Lincoln
21.
Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.
Richard Florida
22.
I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.
Anne Robinson
23.
I'm a big free trader. But it has to be fair.
Donald Trump
24.
Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.
Arthur Levitt Jr
25.
I just want to be fair. I want to be a firm and fair trader.
Donald Trump
26.
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge