Like all of life’s rich emotional experiences, the full flavour of losing important money cannot be conveyed by literature. You cannot convey to an inexperienced girl what it is truly like to be a wife and mother.... The pain you … feel from losing money is not something that can be simulated. No one knows how they will react until they are in that moment of maximum pain. – Fred Schwed Jnr. People can lose a lot of money in the stock market. They can lose everything. But while it will feel that way, all is not always lost. Here’s what Paul Tudor Jones had to say about losing everything in the stock market: "I think it’s no coincidence that our greatest champions, our greatest artists, our greatest leaders, our greatest everything all seem to have experienced some kind of gut-wrenching loss. "I think their greatness, in part, was fashioned on the crucible of that defeat. "To a certain extent, I think that holds true in my field as well, and I am leery of traders who have never lost i...
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