“I wanted to spend my time mastering my discipline and focusing on what was going on with me emotionally that was causing me to make certain choices. That is where the real curiosity was for me. Trading is a great mirror into myself. It doesn’t make any difference how much money I lose or make; I am not going to be sad or happy.”

– Jimmy Balodimas

“I absolutely believe that price movement patterns are being repeated.  They are recurring patterns that appear over and over, with slight variations.  This is because markets are driven by humans and human nature never changes.”

– Jesse Livermore

“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”

– Benjamin Mays

“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.”

– Eddie Cantor

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

– Mark Hansen

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

– Plato

“All strength and force of a man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong, he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”

– James Freeman Clarke