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Jack D. Schwager Quotes

Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

Jack D. Schwager
Motivational, Wise Words, Staying

Traders focus almost entirely on where to enter a trade. In reality, the entry size is often more important than the entry price

Jack D. Schwager
Reality, Focus, Important
Jack D. Schwager (2012). “Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win”, p.240, John Wiley & Sons

Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong

Jack D. Schwager
Traders, Reverse

If you don’t stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.

Jack D. Schwager
Pay, Able, Loser
Jack D. Schwager (2016). “Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve.

Jack D. Schwager
Successful, Keys, Investment Success

You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right.

Jack D. Schwager
Temptation, Position
Jack D. Schwager (1992). “The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa every two to four days. This pattern is a function of human behavior. It takes several days of a market rallying before it looks really good. That’s when everyone wants to buy it, and that’s the time when the professionals, like myself, are selling. Conversely, when the market has been down for a few days, and everyone is bearish, that’s the time I like to be buying.

Jack D. Schwager
Moving, Two, Vices

Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone

Jack D. Schwager
Successful, Winning, Skills

There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.

Jack D. Schwager
Way, Irony, Making Money
Jack D. Schwager (2012). “The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

Jack D. Schwager
Basketball, Player, One Day

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