Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

--Jack Nicklaus, golfer


Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

--Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

--Margaret Thatcher, British stateswoman


Sounds like John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton...list goes on

"After the Beanie Babies collectables crash in '96 I didn't know where to turn"

-Ricky Bobby

Quoted from E811

"After the Beanie Babies collectables crash in '96 I didn't know where to turn"

-Ricky Bobby

That is the best quote yet.

Here is another one.

Normally I am not a praying man, but if you are up there...please save me Superman.

--Homer Simpson

Plenty of people miss their shares of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

--William Feather, publisher, writer


If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a PILE DRIVER!

--Winston Churchill, British Statesman

"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."

-- James Russell Lowell

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."

-- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)

Quoted from MauiTrader

Plenty of people miss their shares of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

--William Feather, publisher, writer

EXCELLENT!

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."  Steven Covey

When things go bad, traders shouldn't stick their head in the sand and just hope it gets better.

You should always have a worst-case point. The only choice should be to get out quicker.

The worst mistake a trader can make is to miss a major profit opportunity. 95 percent of profits come from only 5 percent of the trades.

Richard Dennis

A minute's success pays the failures of years.

--Robert Browning, poet


Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...Only then will you learn the game.

--Winston Churchill, British Statesman


Every man dies. Not every man lives. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the "buts" you use today.

--Les Brown, bandleader


Difficulties are just things to overcome.

--Ernest Shackleton, explorer


A whole stack of memories NEVER equal one little hope.

--Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist


A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

--Charles M. Schwab, steel executive


My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball.

--Bjorn Borg, tennis player


Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

--Neil Armstrong, astronaut


Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

--Helena Rubinstein, cosmetic entrepeneur


Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

--Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics


The first step toward finding God, Who IS Truth, is to discover the truth about myself.

--Thomas Merton, theologian


If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

--John Kenneth Galbraith, economist

Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment, announced in 1977:

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital."

--Daniel Webster

A young reporter went over to Winston Churchill to wish him a happy 84th birthday. He asked Churchill if he, the reporter, would be able to wish him a happy 100th birthday. Churchill looked at the reporter and said, "Why not? You look healthy."

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

--Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, author

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

--Don Shula, football coach

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

--Harry Truman, 33rd President

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

--Benjamin Spock, pediatrician, author

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

--Alexander Graham Bell, inventor

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

--Bertrand Russell, philosopher

When I have heard all I need to make a decision, I do not take a vote. I make a decision.

--Ronald Reagan, 40th US President

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

--Morihei Ueshiba, martial artist

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

--Carl Yung, psychologist

Ask advice from everyone, but act with your own mind.

--Yiddish proverb

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

--TY Cobb, baseball player

When everyone ignores a vital subject, it is likey to be important to everyone.

Humphrey B Beil in The art of contrary thinking.

This is applicable to the yield curve inversion at this moment.