"There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them."

--

Source : Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons

Victor Niederhoffer

#Winning Quotes #Victory Quotes #Way Quotes

“I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.”
“What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.”
“I recommend the art of slow reading.”
“It was he [Vincent] who helped me to accommodate my life in such a way that I can be at peace with myself. Serenity - this was the favorite word of both of them [Vincent and Theo], the something they considered the highest. Serenity - I have found it.”
“It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.”
“Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.”
“I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!”
“Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.”

Source : "Religious Perplexities". "Hibbert Lecture", 1922.

You may also like: