Trading Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old trading quotes, trading sayings, and trading proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Trade is the best cure for prejudice. Baron de Montesquieu
Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person. Steven Pinker
The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading. Victor Sperandeo
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed. Ayn Rand
Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses. Steve Burns
Trade your cleverness for bewilderment. Rumi
If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living. William C. Brown
Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures. Don Davis
Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses. Paul Singer
The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk. Steve Burns
The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading. Victor Sperandeo
The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away. Phil Jackson
There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back. Janet Morris
When you're trading well, you have a better mental attitude. When you're trading poorly, you start wishing and hoping. Instead of getting into trades you think will work, you end up getting into trades you hope will work. Randy McKay
No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money. Roy H. Williams
Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream. Abraham Lincoln
Trading is very competitive and you have to be able to handle getting your butt kicked. Paul Tudor Jones
Free trade should not mean free labor. Stephen F. Lynch
Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about. Paul Tudor Jones
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither. Benjamin Franklin
By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them. T.F. Hodge
Trading decisions should be made as unemotionally as possible. Richard Dennis
The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand. Bruce Kovner
Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game. William C. Brown
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient. Benjamin Disraeli
Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly. Tony Robbins
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. Edmund Burke
In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose Bernard Baruch
Your trading needs to boil down to rules, money management, and that is it. Michael Covel
Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge. Henry George