Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose

If you personalize losses, you can't trade.

Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

In a bear market, you have to use sharp countertrend rallies to sell.

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. Its been an interesting and happy ride since.

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.

Rock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that.

A lot of people may not know this but I'm quite famous.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.