The markets teach you humility every single day.
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Ken Griffin
Born in 1968 in Florida, Ken Griffin founded Citadel and built it into one of the world's preeminent hedge funds and market makers. He began trading convertible-bond arbitrage from his Harvard dormitory room and grew Citadel Securities into a firm that handles roughly a quarter of all U.S. equity trades, making him a defining figure in modern financial-market infrastructure.
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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
-- Nathan Mayer Rothschild
If you are not willing to endure pain, you cannot get the gain.
-- Mark Mobius
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If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
-- Benjamin Franklin