Top 216 Trades Quotes & Sayings

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

I take pride in being a jack of all trades.

The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

Our job is to play basketball, not worry about trades.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

I've always wanted to be - I know people think this is an insult - but a jack of all trades.

On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades can be matched directly. But most larger trades are delivered to the specialist on the floor of the exchange by human brokers, a system that big investors view as increasingly inefficient.

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.

Midseason trades are hard.

I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

When you're trading well, you have a better mental attitude. When you're trading poorly, you start wishing and hoping. Instead of getting into trades you think will work, you end up getting into trades you hope will work.

We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.

The idea of a financial transaction tax on Wall Street trades is gaining momentum. I have a bill called - nicknamed the Robin Hood tax also. It's a bill that taxes stock trades, derivatives and bonds, and would generate in the neighborhood of $300 billion a year.

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

Don't believe everything you read in the trades.

It's fun to see all the trades. Unless it's you.

We generate a ludicrous amount of trades in $1 to $5 stocks. Because we're free, we're the only place where you can day trade stuff like that.

I'm a jack of all trades, master of none.

I'm kind of a Jack of all trades, master of none.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.

I've been through trades, having different coaches, everything under the sun.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.

I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.

The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

Two of the most difficult parts of our business is trades and when a player leaves.

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

I'm sort of like a jack of all trades.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Larry Bird is a hard man to deal with. He tries to make unfair trades.

Writing down your trades is the best exercise in the world.

I went to a small school, so I had to be a jack of all trades and master a few.

If you make any trades during the year, keep a record of each transaction for at least three years.

The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.

There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar makers and plasterers. Some had little businesses of their own -- coal and wood and vegetable stores. Some worked on the cotton exchange and some were porters. They had to work at other trades 'cause there were so many musicians, so many bands. It was the most musical town in the country.

Trades happen in the NBA. I've had a lot of teammates in my six years, so I know kind of how it works.

Each powerful player, or coalition of players, will make concessions in areas where it has relatively less at stake in exchange for other such players making reciprocal concessions in other areas where it has relatively more at stake. Such trades are collectively rational insofar as they get each of the powerful players more of what it wants. But such trades are also dangerous because the whole international rule-system will become incoherent and therefore vulnerable to crises that will continue to become increasingly severe.

UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.