Quotes
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Bruce Kovner

"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 other people who may be using the same stop, because the market shouldn't go there if I am right"

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

Bruce Kovner

#Sleep Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.”
“No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.”
“No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.”
“True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".”
“Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.”
“I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.”

Source : FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Oct 29, 2013
“In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.”

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