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.

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about. Thomas Peterffy
Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own. Oswald Chambers
He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither. Jim Goad
The trading side of the business means a lot of travel, being out of the office a lot of time. Ivan Glasenberg
If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess. Paul Tudor Jones
If you're trading individual securities, you're almost certainly making a mistake. Because most professional managers can't outperform their benchmarks, and there's little reason to think that individuals can. Richard Thaler
Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between. Michael Covel
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. Wole Soyinka
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. George Sand
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless. Eric Hoffer