Motivational Quotes
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It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil
"It's just your money, not your life. Everybody who really loved you a week ago still loves you tonight, and that is a heck of a lot more important than the numbers on a brokerage statement. The robins will sing. The crocuses will bloom. Babies will gurgle, and puppies will curl up in your lap and drift happily to sleep, even when the stock market goes temporarily insane."
Louis Rukeyser, following the 1987 crash
Louis Rukeyser, following the 1987 crash
You can basically quote the whole book of "Sunzi: The Art of War".
The one I like most for general trading:
"So it is that a victorious army will not engage the enemy unless it is assured of the necessary conditions for victory, whereas an army destined to defeat rushes into battle in the hope that it will win by luck." - Sunzi
And this one for the trend followers:
"For no matter how stubbornly a small force may fight, it must in the end succumb to greater strength and fall captive to it." - Sunzi
It amazes me every day that these words were written some two thousand years ago on some bamboo chips. I've long been thinking starting a topic of Sunzi and trading...
The one I like most for general trading:
"So it is that a victorious army will not engage the enemy unless it is assured of the necessary conditions for victory, whereas an army destined to defeat rushes into battle in the hope that it will win by luck." - Sunzi
And this one for the trend followers:
"For no matter how stubbornly a small force may fight, it must in the end succumb to greater strength and fall captive to it." - Sunzi
It amazes me every day that these words were written some two thousand years ago on some bamboo chips. I've long been thinking starting a topic of Sunzi and trading...
