The Best Trading Proverbs

[OddTrader]

"Speculation is a venture based upon calculation. Gambling is a venture without calculation"
- Dickson G. Watts

"Speculation is a venture based upon loose calculation. Gambling is precise calculation" - Casino Host

 

[dealmaker]

"Most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand"
- Marty Schwartz

 

[dealmaker]

"A common deception - self deception"
- Dickson G. Watts

 

[dealmaker]

"To the artist alone are the rules of his art valuable"
- Dickson G. Watts

 

[dealmaker]

"Investors make the most and the safest money when they do things other people don’t want to do."
Howard Marks, CFA

 

[dealmaker]

"It's not what you know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know for certain that ain't true"
- Mark Twain

 

[dealmaker]

“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”

― Warren Buffett

 

[dealmaker]

"Never forget the six foot tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet in average" - Howard Marks

 

[dealmaker]

"Fools try to prove that they are right. Wise men try to find when they are wrong"
- Dickson G. Watts

 

[Humpy]

Much wisdom is thinly disguised as comedy.