Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders

by Jack D. Schwager

Half the work in solving a problem is finding the right way to conceptualize it.

People just don’t want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.

I can’t say that I have been successful because I am better than anybody else. By the grace of God, I was in the right place at the right time, so I feel a tremendous obligation to share.

Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about. Emotionally, you live on the extremes.