Paul Tudor Jones Quotes

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

The markets were run by mathematicians and their models but they had no business sense.

Trading demands total concentration and the ability to do several things at once while instantly recalling trading prices from the day, or week, before.

I'm going to reveal the grand secret to getting rich by investing. It's a simple formula that has worked for Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and all the greatest investment gurus over the years. Ready? Buy low, sell high.

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about.

I think a lot of hedge funds get their trades from Wall Street and get their ideas from Wall Street. And I just like to find my own ideas. I'm reading a lot; I read a lot of news. I'm addicted to it. I basically - I follow my nose on news stories.

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.

I had thought of joining my dad in his stock broking business in Delhi.

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.