Paul Tudor Jones
Paul Tudor Jones
Paul Tudor Jones IIis an American businessman who founded Tudor Investment Corporation, a private asset management company and hedge fund. As of March 2014, he was estimated to have a net worth of US$4.3 billion by Forbes Magazine and ranked as the 108th richest American and 345th richest in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 September 1954
CountryUnited States of America
believe fields mathematics
I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.
believe people mediocrity
It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.
believe years missing
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.
believe moving fundamentals
I always believe that prices move first and fundamentals come second
Trading is very competitive and you have to be able to handle getting your butt kicked.
adult equal fighting life limiting opportunity segment society spent support women
Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.
great investors men traders women
You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.
death degree emotional field focus high highs life loved lows obstacles requires specific success
Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.
taken humanity making-money
There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business
giving feelings life-is
Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.
chess three macro
If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.
humanity our-society threatening
We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.
new-york cities people
There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.
daughter heart men
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,