Mark Minervini Quotes

"Trading stocks and running a business are virtually identical."

"The proliferation of cheap brokerage commissions, internet trading and web-based stock market data may have provided everyone with the same technology, but it did not grant investors an equal ability to use those resources."

"Practice does not make perfect. Practice only makes habitual."

"It's more important to make money than it is to be right."

"No one cares about your money and your future as much as you do. Do the work, own your failures and you will own your success."

your future as much as you do. Do the work, own your failures and you will own your success."

"Have confidence in your ability. Learn to do your own research and think for yourself. Your own resources are far superior to outside research, tips and so-called expert opinions because they're yours and therefore you can keep tabs on them. No one cares about your money and

"You need to first understand that your greatest challenge is not the stock market, it's you."

"On the basis of 30 years of personal experience and historical analysis of every market cycle going back to the early 1900s, I can assure you that nothing has changed very much. In fact, history repeats itself over and over."

"If you think stock trading is gambling, I suppose you could say the same about brain surgery. To a trained surgeon with the necessary expertise, it is a job with risks that are offset by knowledge, training and ultimately skill. Stock trading is no different."

"You will most likely have to learn to do certain things that go against your natural instincts or perhaps relearn some ingrained investment beliefs."

"The vast majority of investors operate from faulty assumptions that are based on personal opinion or theory, not unbiased facts. Among those who acquire the necessary knowledge, many fail to develop the emotional discipline to execute a winning plan."

"For me, the greatest success came when I finally decided to forget about the money and concentrate on being the trader I could be. Then the money followed."

"Once acquired, the skill of proficient stock trading can never be taken from you. No one can fire you from your craft the way a boss can from a job; it's just you and the market. All you have learned and the experience you have gained can bear fruit for man years to come."

"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."

"My philosophy and approach to trading is to be a conservative aggressive opportunist. It simply means to be aggressive in my pursuit of potential reward and at the same time to be extremely risk-conscious."

"The stock market was the one place I could see that had unlimited potential without prejudice."

"I dropped out of school in the eighth grade at age 15, which means that I am almost completely self-educated. I have never seen the inside of a high school as a student, let alone attended a university."

"Dedication and a desire to succeed are definitely requirements to achieve superperformance in stocks. What is not required is conventional wisdom or a college education."

"Success requires opportunity. And the stock market provides incredible opportunity on a daily basis."