Trade Quotes - Page 4

• That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.

  Mercer Reynolds

  Jobs, September 11, Firsts

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• A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Events, Causes, Economy

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• Nuestra libertad también está incompleta, queridos compatriotas, mientras nos nieguen nuestra seguridad los delincuentes que se aprovechan de nuestras comunidades, que roban nuestros negocios y socavan nuestra economía, que ejercen su destructivo comercio de drogas en nuestras escuelas y que ejercen la violencia contra nuestras mujeres y niños.

  Nelson Mandela

  Niños, Escuela, Largo

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• I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Wine, Trade Zone, Joining

  Blog, April 29, 2009.

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• Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

  Matt Ridley

  Motivation, Inspiration, Farming

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• In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.

  Sunitha Krishnan

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Light, Sometimes

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• My experience with novice traders is that they trade three to five times too big. They are taking 5 to 10 percent risks on a trade when they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks. The emotional burden of trading is substantial; on any given day, I could lose millions of dollars. If you personalize these losses, you can’t trade.

  Bruce Kovner

  Loss, Emotional, Risk

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm getting out before I get in. The position size on a trade is determined by the stop, and the stop is determined on a technical basis... I never think about [stop vulnerability], because the point about a technical barrier - and I've studied the technical aspects of the market for a long time - is that the market shouldn't go there if you are right.

  Bruce Kovner

  Sueño, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose

  Bruce Kovner

  Dollars, Determined, Maximum

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• Bombing embassies or destroying non-military installations like the World Trade Center is no jihad. “[T]hose who launched the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks not only killed thousands of innocent people in the United States but also put the lives of millions of Muslims across the world at risk. Bin Laden is not a prophet that we should put thousands of lives at risk for.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  Military, People, Risk

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• Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

  Precio Reynolds

  Healing, Writing, World

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• Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

  Paul Dourish

  Years, Fifty, Computer

  Paul Dourish (2004). “Where the Action is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction”, p.1, MIT Press

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• The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision.

  Dave Bidini

  Song, Joy, Musical

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• Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Long, Design, Advice

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• But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.

  Herman Gorter

  Party, Struggle, Mean

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• Para tener éxito en los otros oficios, hay que demostrar la capacidad; en la abogacía, basta con ocultarla.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Law

  Following the Equator ch. 37, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

  Julian Sanchez

  Scary Stories, Frustrated, Liberty

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• Como persona, para tomar decisiones correctas, para mantener tu dinero, para hacer tu oficio, una buena educación es imprescindible. No creo que me hubiera ido tan bien sin una educación.

  Bobby Vinton

  Education, Thinking, Decision

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• Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

  Brad Pitt

  Math, Age, Youth

  "Brad Pitt owes a debt to Benjamin Button" by Reed Johnson, articles.latimes.com. December 26, 2008.

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• Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes an important contribution by illustrating how trade unions, far from being outdated, will be at the forefront of a just transition. It is a challenging compilation?coming at exactly the right time.

  Sharan Burrow

  Challenges, Important, World

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• Por lo que sé, no hubo ningún aviso previo del atentado contra el World Trade Center en 1993, que fue la primera actividad terrorista extranjera de importancia en Estados Unidos.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Advertencia, Mundo, Primeros

  "Escuchar al Almirante". Entrevista con Ann Louise Bardach, www.slate.com. 16 de diciembre de 2004.

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• Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Memorable, Comfort, Duration

  Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Wind, Sky

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3039, Delphi Classics

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• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Military, War, Needs

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