The markets are always changing, and the successful trader…

It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing…

— Bill Lipschutz

The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

— Alexander Elder

A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented.

— Monroe Trout

The single most important advice I can give anybody is: Learn from your mistakes. That is the only way to become a successful trader.

— David Ryan

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

— William Delbert Gann

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have…

— Michael Steinhardt

Regardless of what we think we know and should happen the reality is that a lot of stock action is random. Therefore, money management…

— Jeff Cooper

Being a successful trader also takes courage: the courage to try, the courage to fail, the courage to succeed, and the courage to keep…

— Michael Marcus

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

— Benjamin Franklin

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

— John Szarkowski

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

— Melvin Van Peebles

It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

I'm a big free trader. But it has to be fair.

— Donald Trump

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The truth is that once you get down on the trading floor, you find that the traders come from all walks of life. You…

— Linda Bradford Raschke