153 Quotes About Trading

The most important thing is to invest and buy shares in successful businesses. The second most important thing is to buy right and do not pay excessive amounts.

If you have some working knowledge of business and accounting and have a lot of patience to ride out market ups and downs, you can be a stock picker. You just need to understand that stocks are proportionate ownership of earning businesses.

Stocks are not market tickers represented by daily quotes but proportionate ownership of businesses and should be viewed accordingly.

If you have to compromise your ethics to get it, then it is not worth having.

Most women sell sex; most of them just don’t take cash (nor do they each sell to more than one ‘client’ at a time).

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

An average trader loses money, so in this profession, you need to be way above average to make consistent money trading the markets.

In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size.

Humans’ reactions are contaminated with their cognitive biases, greed, fear, and survival instinct. However, capital market success requires precisely the opposite behavior of what your intuition is suggesting.