“Learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. – Richard Bach
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
--Robert Frost, poet
When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
--Albert Einstein, physicist
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
--Dale Carnegie, educator
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
--Erma Bombeck, writer
Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.
--Thomas Edison, inventor
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
--Vince Lombardi, football coach
Beware the fury of a patient man.
--John Dryden, poet
I would not fear a pack of lions led by a sheep, but I would always fear a flock of sheep led by a lion.
“The average man doesn’t wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn’t even wish to have to think.”
To anyone who has not seen THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS yet, I highly recommend it. Best movie I have seen in a long time...
"You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period."
“I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up. I don’t mean of course that in a bear market caused by a war, ammunition shares do not go up. I speak in a general sense. But the average man doesn’t wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn’t even wish to have to think.”
- Jesse Livermore
Success is a State of Mind - - Tommy Bahama Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do. The speculator has to insure himself against considerable losses by taking their first small loss. - - Jesse Livermore The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. - - Jesse Livermore
“I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up. I don’t mean of course that in a bear market caused by a war, ammunition shares do not go up. I speak in a general sense. But the average man doesn’t wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn’t even wish to have to think.”
Success is a State of Mind - - Tommy Bahama Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do. The speculator has to insure himself against considerable losses by taking their first small loss. - - Jesse Livermore The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. - - Jesse Livermore
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives, but have only one course of action.
--Frank Herbert, author
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.
--William McAdoo, treasury secretary
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei, astronomer
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
--Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, author
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
--Alistair Cooke, journalist
We tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
--Neil Armstrong, astronaut
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
--George Allen, football coach
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
--Aristotle, philosopher
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
--Leo Durocher, baseball manager
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right upfront, tell people what you are trying to accomplish and what you are willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
--Lee Iacocca, executive
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
--Arnold Palmer, golfer
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
--Benjamin Franklin, author, inventor, statesman
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
--Vince Lombardi, football coach
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
--Babe Ruth, baseball player
I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something I hate.
--George Burns, comedian
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
--George Patton, general
Desire is the key to motivation, but it is the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
--Mario Andretti, race car driver
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
--Benjamin Franklin, statesman
You have to learn to win without bragging and lose without excuses.
--Eddie Robinson, football coach
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
Leadership is solving problems, and the day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you stop leading.
Ok, everyone, it is time to start getting ready for the real deal.
It is still not finished (obviously) but you can now register and get access to the gold area for free during the first week or so. I can not remember what I was told but here it is. Get used to it. This site will no longer be free as of Jan. 1st.
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