Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard Quotes

“Growth comes at the expense of comfort.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market

“I fear not the man that has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick 10,000 times. —Bruce Lee”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“The difference between interest and commitment is the will not to give up. When you truly commit to something, you have no alternative but success.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“Virtually every superperformance phase in big, winning stocks occurred while the stock price was in a definite price uptrend. In almost every case, the trend was identifiable early in the superperformance advance.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people are unwilling to do. —Michael Phelps, winner of 17 Olympic medals”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“You want to get on board when institutional money is pouring into a stock and lifting it significantly higher.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“If you find yourself getting stopped out of your positions over and over, there can only be two things wrong: 1. Your stock selection criteria are flawed. 2. The general market environment is hostile.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.—Charles Brower.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market

“Investing styles may differ among successful market players, but without exception, winning stock traders share certain key traits required for success. Fall short in those qualities and you will surely part ways with your money.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“How to Trade in Stocks.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“Truly, this is what makes acquired knowledge and firsthand experience the greatest tool to succeed and build upon in stock trading and in life.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“life is rich even if you are not.---things are happening everyday, good and bad, and that it was just a matter of deciding what I wanted to be part of.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market

“your first loss is your best loss.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“My goal is not to buy at the lowest or cheapest price but at the "right" price, just as a stock is ready to move significantly higher. Trying to pick a bottom is unnecessary and a waste of time; it misses the whole point.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market

“Both opportunity and perils surface suddenly in the market. It takes swift, resolute action to exploit one and elude the other. Nothing can unravel a trader's courage more than a huge loss in a stock trade. It wasn't until I suffered enough big losses that I made the decision that turned my performance from mediocre to stellar: I decided it was time to make money and stop stressing about my ego. ”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market

“Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard by Mark Minervini.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“If you want to reap big gains in the market, make up your mind right now that you are going to separate trading from your ego. It’s more important to make money than it is to be right.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

“numbers won’t do anything to improve your psychology or mental preparedness. The road to success in the stock market is not a system or strategy; it’s within you, and it will be realized only to the extent that you are able to control and direct your emotions as you encounter challenges, of which I assure you there will be many. You might as well know that at the start. Otherwise, you’ll only be chasing false hopes.”
― Mark Minervini, Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market