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“Enslavers made it a point to keep enslaved people as busy and exhausted as possible out of fear that idle time would give them the means to revolt or riot.21 Even more disturbing, enslaved people who tried to run away from bondage were seen as mentally ill and suffering from “runaway slave disorder.”22 By not accepting their proper role in society, they were demonstrating that they were broken and disturbed. This worldview became the foundation for American capitalism.23”
― Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

“traders often believe that a set strategy should work in all environments, when, in fact, the best traders alter their strategy to adjust to the environment they’re in at the time. This continuous failure leads to the endless search for a new strategy, which ultimately creates more frustration and soon leads to yet another failure. The truth is that most people spend a lifetime searching out new trading strategies, on a cycle of continuous failure, whereas the successful trader spends a lifetime honing the strategy already consistent in bringing gains.”
― Tatro Quint, Trade the Trader: Know Your Competition and Find Your Edge for Profitable Trading

“If the landscape has shifted and now the vast majority of traders are positioning for the same outcome that should transpire, doesn’t it make sense that the odds of this transpiring has been dramatically reduced?”
― Tatro Quint, Trade the Trader: Know Your Competition and Find Your Edge for Profitable Trading

“We don’t normally think of the empirical method as heretical, but it is. A person who can trust his own senses and reason doesn’t need authorities to explain his world. He can, in fact, defy authorities when the facts and his reasoning lead him there. And worse, he is trading their revelation for his observations.”
― Ron Davison, The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization