"Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds."

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Source : Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

Alexander Elder

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“I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.”

Source : "X-men: First Class - Banshee Interview". Interview with Chris Tilly, www.ign.com. May 13, 2011.
“I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.”
“You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.”
“I write short stories, and I wrote a play.”
“I won't cry cause I live to die, with my mind on my money and my guns in the sky.”
“It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.”
“Women have to be careful to not wear out their husbands on their honeymoons, or they get so weak that they can't go to work!”
“When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.”

Source : Interview with Michaelangelo Matos, www.avclub.com. June 1, 2009.

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