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

Humans Doe Business Study Successful Human Nature Opposites Finance Traders General Public

Author:William Delbert Gann

“The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.”

Source: How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price

“If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.”

Ifs Humans Might Felt Chance Results Business Human Nature Cold Investment Finance Temptation Take A Chance Calculations

Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.”

Source: Battle for Investment Survival

“A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.”

Business Finance Technicians

Author:Gary B Smith

“I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.”

Ifs Writing Trying Games Acting Ten Projects Golf Finance If I Could Handicaps Golf Game

Author:Paul Michael Glaser

“The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.”

Helping Turns Hours Paid Neighbor Finance Extras Anxious Isolated Deprived Family Friends

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.”

Country Enough Growth Class Economy Middle Spending Driven Income Finance Earning Asian Asian Countries

Author:Sri Mulyani Indrawati

“It's an extremely good thing that money sometimes changes hands.”

Sometimes Hands Business Good Things Finance

Author:William C. Brown

“Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.”

Years Given Five Years Ago Decades Criminals Campaigns Finance Aliens Reform Five Years Regulation Sanctions Rules And Regulations Campaign Finance Campaign Finance Reform

Author:Jay Sekulow

“In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.”

May Self Done Facts Law Unions Congress Campaigns Finance Corporate Incumbents Campaign Finance

Author:Elena Kagan