Frankly, I don't see markets; I see risks, rewards, and money.

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.

It is incredible how rich you can get by not being perfect

I don't trade for excitement; I trade to win

If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.

No matter what information you have, no matter what you are doing, you can be wrong.

Never risk more than 1% of total account equity on any one trade. By risking 1%, I am indifferent to any individual trade. Keeping your risk small and constant is absolutely critical.

I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.

We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.

But you understand the relationship between pi and Gaussian curvature, right? pg 264

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

I think it's important when you're acting to be as relaxed as possible even if you're doing something intense. You're basically in a state of dynamic relaxation.

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

You're gonna be ok, dum de dum dum dum, just dance.

I cry for those not yet dead.

In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.

Sometimes I wish I lived more in the day, but I'm happier thinking about tomorrow or the day after. The way I see it, there's always a new or next thing.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.