153 Quotes by Jeff Cooper

It’s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

If I wasn’t a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.

The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don’t resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.

It seems that the concealed carry policy now in effect in 30 states is unfair to goblins. They cannot tell who is armed and who is not, and when their intended victim shoots back it hurts their feelings – along with other things.

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don’t hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.

At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the “Christmas morning joy” that we largely left behind in our childhood.

Owning a handgun doesn’t make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

Man fights with his mind. His hands and his weapons are simply extensions of his will, and one of the fallacies of our era is the notion that equipment is the equivalent of force.

It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by “society” I mean you.