"There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side."

— Jesse Livermore

"I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1) if you don’t bet, you can’t win; 2) if you lose all your chips, you can’t bet."

— Larry Hite

"It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, it’s how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong".

— George Soros

"Drawing... it is the best thing that I ever do. First of all because it gets me to be so silent. To not be blurting out what I think about this or feel about that. Second, I become an open observer, jotting down visual notes about something I see. And third, it puts me in the world of praise. To be looking upon an object and taking the time to sketch it is an innocent, unaggressive, and grounding act. It is where bliss resides. It is pure being..."

— D. Price, The Moonlight Chronicles.

"There is a time to go long, a time to go short, and a time to go fishing."

— Jesse Livermore