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
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
--Bill Bowerman, track coach
Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50.
--Edgar Degas, artist
Talent wins games. Teamwork wins championships.
--Michael Jordan, basketball star
A man in not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
--John Barrymore, actor
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
--Epictetus, philosopher
Values are the emotional salary of work, and some folks are drawing no wages at all.
--Howard Figler, career consultant
No government is ever perfect. One of the cheif virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.
i just thought this was funny, although maybe its not inspirational :
"Gann angles are mathematical projections based on the extensive theories of W.D. Gann. I've noticed that Gann's theories have been getting a lot of press lately. However, I've never tried them for one simple reason: Gann died broke"
Lou Mannheim: Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
--Maria Montessori, educator
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
--Thomas Edison, inventor
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
--Gale Sayers, football player
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
--Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
--Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
--Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
market related, not inspirational: Paul Rotter aka the "Eurex Flipper" as been consistenly making 50-80million euros a year for the past 10 years daytrading european futures(mainly the bund) for himself.
I thought you might find this interesting answer to a question posed to him -
"Q: Shouldn't a trader stick to his opinion? A: No, definitely not. An analyst or some kind of guru has to stick to it, but a trader should have no opinion. The stronger your opinion, the harder it is to get out of a losing position"
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
--Bill Gates, entrepeneur
The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. As long as you have got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.
--Trevor Baylis, inventor
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
--Hippocrates, physician
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no further."
--Ludwig van Beethoven
I attribute my success to this -- I never gave or took any excuse.
--Florence Nightingale
It is true that you can be anything you want, but it is far easier when your ambition is complemented by the ambition of others.
--Kurt Vonnegut, writer
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
--Norman Cousins, editor
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
--John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
Good pitching will always stop good hitting, and vice versa.
--Casey Stengal, baseball manager
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein, physicist
The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work.
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
--Walt Disney, animator, producer
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
--Truman Capote, writer
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
--Maria Montessori, educator
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
--Jonas Salk, researcher
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
--Aristophanes, Greek dramatist
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
--Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
--Ansel Adams, photographer
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach and how we live.
Have a great Saturday night! I will see you Sunday.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
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