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Favorite Quotes

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast." - Kent Beck

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." - John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson

Bruce Lee

"Be water, my friend."

"Simplicity is the last step of art."

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

Warren Buffett

"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful."

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

"Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does."

"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."

"Beware of geeks bearing formulas."

Kung Fu Panda

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."

"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it."

"If you only do what you can do, you'll never be better than what you are."

"To make something special, you just have to believe it's special."

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

"The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent."

Heard on the Trading Floor

"Go on garden leave if you want to hedge."

"We're gonna feel really confident until we wrap our new model around a telephone pole."

"Markets can be wrong for a minute, but not for a month."

"This trader's resume says at the top 'can't go broke taking profits'... no wonder he needs a job."

"The best poker players aren't seen sitting at the table with the pros. They're at the home games cleaning out the amateurs."