Traders Quotes - Page 5

• My experience with novice traders is that they trade three to five times too big. They are taking 5 to 10 percent risks on a trade when they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks. The emotional burden of trading is substantial; on any given day, I could lose millions of dollars. If you personalize these losses, you can’t trade.

  Bruce Kovner

  Loss, Emotional, Risk

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.

  Ed Seykota

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• I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them — which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, People, Giving

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". "Nightly Business Report" with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Business, Character, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.32, Vivekananda Kendra

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• We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Government, Views

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Father, Eye, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

  James Herbert

  Boys, Parent, Catholic

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• Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

  Richard Florida

  Needs, Economy, Builder

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

  Anne Robinson

  Mother, Making Money, Very Good

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone... we must be compassionate!

  Josephine Bakhita

  Love, God, Christian

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• One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving Up, Two, Trying

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• The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.

  M.I.A.

  Wall, Artist, Robots

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Southern, Soul, Literature

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.81

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• Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Virginia, Feet, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities.

  Marina Warner

  Night, Class, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond Egypt's boundaries. As a result of his aggressive attacks slaves and foreign elements were common in Egypt. Consequently, there was more intermarriage during his reign than at other times. Egypt was visited by merchants and traders and was extremely prosperous and cosmopolitan during this period.

  Michael Tsarion

  Father, War, Egypt

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• I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.

  Anna Eshoo

  California, Competition, Would Be

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• The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.

  Errico Malatesta

  Lying, Government, Police

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• The people who want to be recognized as the greatest traders are probably not the greatest traders. Egos get in the way of the process. In my opinion, you never want to be the largest player in the pit.

  Blair Hull

  Player, People, Ego

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• It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

  Shannon Hale

  Thinking, Salt, Wagons

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• The Flavr Savr wasn't about taste at all; that was just the name. It was about the shape and the shipability of it. My dad's company was all about flavor. His tomatoes are some of the best selling at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Dad, Names, Tomatoes

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For me to get the support and the love and response we did from critics, but to also be at Trader Joe's and have women come up to me and cry and hug me is on another level. That makes you take a step back because there are genuine emotions at stake. People were truly on a journey with her. This story opened up week by week like a flower. It was just a magical season, and I'm so happy I got to do it.

  Monica Potter

  Flower, Journey, People

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• 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

  Class, Slavery, Masters

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Impossible, Invention, Difficult

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