You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.
Interpretation
True significance and joy in life come from serving others rather than focusing solely on oneself.
In this quote, Paul Tudor Jones emphasizes the importance of selflessness in achieving a meaningful existence. He argues that personal significance and true joy are derived not from selfish pursuits, but from acts of service and sacrifice for others, suggesting that a life centered around helping others leads to a more fulfilling and impactful life.
In practice
In a speech about community service, this quote can inspire volunteers to continue their efforts.
If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them Risk control is the most important thing in trading. If you have a losing position that is making you uncomfortable, the solution is very simple: Get out, because you can always get back in.
As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.
I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have
Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.
That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, “Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?
I believe the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and bottoms and you make all your money by playing the trend in the middle. Well for twelve years I have been missing the meat in the middle but I have made a lot of money at tops and bottoms.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.
The most valuable thing my dad taught me was to never care about what other people thought. When he came to my shows, and I'd announce his presence, he'd stand up with his hands clasped in victory and cheer my name.
There are days we live_x000D_ as if death were nowhere_x000D_ in the background; from joy _x000D_ to joy to joy, from wing to wing,_x000D_ from blossom to blossom to_x000D_ impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
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