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Tag Name "Amateurs" (84)

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Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.
Michael Hyatt
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Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong.
Steven Jackson
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Amateurs hope. Professional work.
Garson Kanin
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Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.
Austin Kleon
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Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
Harvey Mackay
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Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.
David Coverdale
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
Alan Greenspan
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Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.
Mason Cooley
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Amateurs study tactics professionals study logistics.
Omar N. Bradley
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Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.
William Eckhardt
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Amateurs look for challenges professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action the pros look for the best odds.
Alexander Elder
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We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.
Martin J. Whitman
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In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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LSU fans have descended upon Dallas and reminded us of this truth: when it comes to partying, they're the pros and we're all amateurs.
Pat Forde
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I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Paul Cezanne
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...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.
Richard Paul Evans
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I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why there's a third man in the ring, the referee. And that's why there has to be a very strong boxing commission that doesn't allow guys in the ring who don't belong there.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money and investment decisions away from proven moneymakers (read: job producers) to Washington amateurs. In both cases, American's lose.
T. J. Rodgers
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The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.
Tom Clancy
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One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.
William Eckhardt
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90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
William O'Neil
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Even virtue is an art and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.
Amanda Palmer
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
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