Quotes About Success

Build your foundation, Reece, he remembered his friend and one of the best archers on the planet telling him years earlier. Winning starts from the ground up.

Luck is the residue of preparation,

Excellence and achievement have a structure that can be copied. By modeling successful people, we can learn from the experience of those who have already succeeded.

Indeed, I have found that confidence is one of the most consistent traits exhibited by the successful traders I have interviewed.

Kovner lists risk management as the key to successful trading; he always decides on an exit point before he puts on a trade. He also stresses the need for evaluating risk on a portfolio basis rather than viewing the risk of each trade independently. This is absolutely critical when one holds positions that are highly correlated, since the overall portfolio risk is likely to be much greater than the trader realizes.

But the fact is: The people who are really successful in trading are tremendously hard workers.

I feel my success comes from my love of the markets. I am not a casual trader. It is my life. I have a passion for trading. It is not merely a hobby or even a career choice for me. There is no question that this is what I am supposed to do with my life.

The idea that trading success is tied to finding some specific ideal approach is misguided. There is no single correct methodology.

I succeeded because I didn't know that I couldn't.

If trading (or any other job or endeavor) is a source of anxiety, fear, frustration, depression, or anger, something is wrong—even if you are successful in a conventional sense

Failure Is Not Predictive

Perhaps the most important rule is to hold on to your winners and cut your losers. Both are equally important. If you don't stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

My youthful dream of becoming a writer has been realized. I am so pleased I did not let my young self down.

The trouble with life is that the moment someone tells you something is impossible, someone else promptly proves that it isn't

Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

It's axiomatic among professional novelists that when things are going hideously for the lead character, the book is probably going along just wonderfully, thank you.

Global vision, local win.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.

Russell stopped by to congratulate West, and Russell said, "I'm just glad to see this finally happen to him.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.