“My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.” IfsHappensLonelyPaidTradeSingersThese DaysYou Like ItCraftsmanBlacksmiths Author:Jacques Brel
“I actually started in the opposite place. I come from a technical background - I'm a mathematician and a programmer by trade - and I was one of those people who would watch a show and say, "Oh, that could never happen."” PeopleShowsHappensWatchesOppositesTradeBackgroundsMathematicianProgrammers Author:Michael Loceff
“In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.” ThinkingWayLongMadeImportantBigsHappensNextWinningStrongTermLossDecisionImagineWorstSpecialEmotionalPeriodsWeakTradeProfitTemptationSomething SpecialStreaksInsidious Author:William Eckhardt
“Saddam Hussein... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you're going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.” WorldBelieveHappensI BelieveThis WorldInvolvedTradeIraqSaddamHusseinBombingPentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Bill O'Reilly
“I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsWellsHappensAgeFallAcceptingNiceGainsTradeAgingOld AgeFalling ApartMellow Author:Woody Allen
“Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsHappensWould BeStrongTradeWesternCriminalsNew WorldRejectingHemisphereNafta Author:David Rockefeller
“It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.” PeopleIfsDoeCountryHappensPastLeftCasesRightsJudgingTradeGood SensePrecious Things Author:Michael Foot
“At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments - there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses.” MomentsGovernmentHappensAreasTradePatternsVariousBalancedGlobesDeficitSurplus Book:Contributions to Modern Economics Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.” PeopleNeedsCountryHappensFashionIndustryTradeThings HappenShallowSuperficial Author:Ali Hewson
“nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes.” ThinkingWorldShouldWarHappensCoursesPlansTradeThings HappenWar Of The WorldsAlsWorld War IPreparingSaddamHusseinInvasionParadigmAugustWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterBackupReversalKuwaitBackup Plan Author:Anne Applebaum
“There are too many unpredictable things that can happen within two months. To me, the ideal trade lasts ten days, but I approach every trade as if I'm only going to hold it two or three days.” IfsTwoHappensLastsThreeMonthsTenApproachIdealsTradeUnpredictableTwo MonthsUnpredictable Things Author:Linda Bradford Raschke