Inspiration

Anais Nin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry If you want to build a ship, don't assign people tasks and work, but rather teach
them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Ari Kiev Believing that an outcome is possible makes it achievable. The classic example
is Roger Bannister's penetration of the four-minute mile mark. Before he ran his
sub four-minute mile in 1954, this feat was considered an impossible barrier that
was beyond human physical capabilities. After he ran his so-called magic mile,
many other runners suddenly began breaking this once seemingly impossible
barrier.
Arnold Schwarzenegger It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their
place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: "I can be there."
Arthur Schopenhauer Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Benjamin Disraeli Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Big Trouble in Little China We really shook the pillars of heaven, didn't we, Wang?

Bruce Kovner When you are really involved, the screen almost reaches out and grabs you. The
way the quotes are made changes: They get wider, they get wilder. I have
contacts all over the world in each of these markets and I know what is going on.
It is a tremendously exciting game.
Canada Bill Jones Yeah, but it's the only game in town!

Charles Faulkner The people that I know who are the most successful at trading are passionate
about it. They fulfill what I think is the first requirement: developing intuitions
about something they care about deeply, in this case, trading... They develop a
deep knowledge of whatever form of analysis they use. Out of that passion and
knowledge, their trading ideas, insights, and intuitions emerge.
Ed Seykota I feel my success comes from my love of the markets. I am not a casual trader. It
is my life. I have a passion for trading. It is not merely a hobby or even a career
choice for me. There is no question that this is what I am supposed to do with my
life.
Experienced traders can be very supportive just by being there for sharing joys
and sorrows.
Elbert Hubbard One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work
of one extraordinary man.
Eugen Herrigel The spider dances her web without knowing that there are flies who will get
caught in it.
Friedrich Nietzsche The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
I am not a man, I am dynamite.
Gary Player Success is there to motivate us, not to keep us stagnant. Keep following your
passion. You were not created to live a mediocre, safe life.
General Anthony McAuliffe Nuts!

Henry de Monfreid For eighteen years I followed the sea, took what it offered. It has brought me
shipwreck and success, sorrow, danger, and unutterable happiness
Hunter S. Thompson There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant
never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to
die.
Inception You mustn't hesitate to dream a little bigger darling.

Jack Schwager Trading provides one of the last great frontiers of opportunity in our economy. It
is one of the very few ways in which an individual can start with a relatively small
bankroll and actually become a multi-millionaire
John Facenda Give me a horse I can ride!

Jonathan Haidt ...rising to a challenge reveals your hidden abilities, and seeing those abilities
changes your self-concept. None of us knows what we are really capable of
enduring.

Joseph Conrad I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as
far as it was possible for a man to go.
Katawa Shoujo Do something you can't, simply because you can

Keith Richards You'd be surprised when you're put right on the ball and you've got to do
something and everybody's looking at you going, OK, what's going to happen?
You put yourself there on the firing line — give me a blindfold and a last cigarette
and let's go. And you'd be surprised by how much comes out of you before you
die.
Leonardo da Vinci When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.

M.C. Escher I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting
so very much to do it well.
So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but
to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.
Marcus Aurelius The noblest way of taking revenge on others is by refusing to become like them.

Mark Minervini Perhaps the single most important factor was that I had a great passion for the
game. I think almost anyone can be net profitable in the stock market given
enough time and effort, but to be a great trader, you have to have a passion for
it. You have to love trading.
 Mark Twain Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from
the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always
do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Marty Schwartz I always try to encourage people that are thinking of going into this business for
themselves. I tell them, 'Think that you might become more successful than you
ever dreamt, because that's what happened to me.'
Confidence is every part of trading. If you're not convinced that you can win, you
should never climb into the ring.
Maurice Sendak It's sublime, to go into another room and make pictures. It's magic time, where all
your weaknesses of character, the blemishes of your personality, whatever else
torments you, fades away, just doesn’t matter. You're doing the one thing you
want to do and you do it well and you know you do it well, and… you’re happy.
The whole promise is to do the work, sitting down at the drawing table, turning on
the radio, and I think, what a transcendent life this is, that I'm doing everything I
want to do. In that moment, I feel like I'm a lucky man.
Michelangelo The great danger for most of us lies in not setting our aim too high and falling
short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Mike Bloomberg When I saw that screen light up that day in the Merrill Lynch offices, I lost any
residual doubt that Bloomberg could make it. We had picked just the right
project. It was big enough to be useful, small enough to be possible. Start with a
small piece, fulfill one goal at a time, on time. Do it with all things in life. Sit down
and learn to read one-syllable words. If you try to read Chaucer in elementary
school, you'll never accomplish anything. You can't jump to the end game right
away, in computers, politics, love, or any other aspect of life.
Patton Rommel, you magnificent bastard. I read your book!

Paul Tudor Jones There is nothing worse than a really bad trading day. You feel so low that it is
difficult to hold your head up. But, if I knew that I could also have a similar
experience in the exhilaration of winning, I would take the combination of winning
and losing days any time because you feel that much more alive. Trading gives
you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.
Pink Floyd Come on you raver, you seer of visions — Come on you painter, you piper, you
prisoner, and shine!
Reminiscences of a Stock I was doing better than breaking even and that is why I didn't think there was any
need to deprive myself of the good things in life. The market was always there to
Operator supply them. I was acquiring the confidence that comes to a man from a
professionally dispassionate attitude toward his own method of providing bread
and butter for himself.
For years I had been the victim of an unfortunate combination of inexperience,
youth and insufficient capital. But now I felt the elation of a discoverer.
That was the day I remember most vividly of all the days of my life as a stock
operator. It was the day when my winnings exceeded one million dollars.
Well, I was worth over one million after the close of business that day. But my
biggest winnings were not in dollars but in the intangibles: I had been right, I had
looked ahead and followed a clear-cut plan. I had learned what a man must do in
order to make big money; I was permanently out of the gambler class; I had at
last learned to trade intelligently in a big way. It was a day of days for me
Scottie Pippen Winning is hard to do, and there's a price that you pay for it. And that's how I saw
Michael as a player — as someone that wanted to prove he's a winner every
day.
Stephen Hawking If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on
a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball more than eight miles
wide.
Steven Rosenberg I loved the night. I think secretly all scientists exult in working alone, surrounded
by the urgent private quiet of the dark. To be doing something no one had ever
done... to be alone and out on the edge like that, there was no feeling like it in
the world.
Sukiyabashi Jiro Sukiyabashi Jiro

T.E. Lawrence All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses
of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the
day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it
possible.
Teddy Roosevelt The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred
by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly… who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at
best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold
and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Teddy Roosevelt, 1912, after a Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just
been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.
failed assassination attempt
Themistocles I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.

They Live The world needs a wake up call, gentlemen... We're gonna phone it in.
Outside the limit of our sight, feeding off us, perched on top of us, from birth to
death, are our owners! Our owners! They have us. They control us! They are our
masters! Wake up! They're all about you! All around you!
Thomas Edison If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound
ourselves.
Tim Ferriss David didn't beat Goliath with a whiteboard. Go get amongst it, and prepare to
bob and weave.
Training Day I walk a higher path, son.
Open your eyes, son. Can't you see?
 When all this is behind you, a whole other world will open up for you.
U.S. Army General 'Vinegar' Joe illegitimi non carborundum (don't let the bastards grind you down)
Stillwell
Vince Lombardi Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Wayne Gretzky You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

William James Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Zombieland Time to nut up or shut up.