Top 30 Paul Tudor Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You adapt, evolve, compete or die.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

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2. “Don’t be a hero. Don’t have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don’t ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

3. “I’m always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don’t focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

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4. “You learn more from your losses than from your gains.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

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5. “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.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

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6. “And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

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7. “Don’t be a hero. Don’t have an ego.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

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8. “Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

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9. “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.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

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10. “The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

11. “I always believe that prices move first and fundamentals come second.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

12. “First of all, never play macho man with the market. Second, never overtrade.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

13. “Failure was a key element to my life’s journey.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

14. “I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

15. “The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

16. “I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

17. “Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

18. “When you get a range expansion, the market is sending you a very loud, clear signal that the market is getting ready to move in the direction of that expansion.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

19. “After a while size means nothing. It gets back to whether you’re making 100% rate of return on $10,000 or $100 million dollars. It doesn’t make any difference.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

20. “First if all, never play macho man in the market. Second, never overtrade. My major problem was not the number of points I lost on the trade, but that I was trading far too many contracts relative to the equity in the accounts that I handled.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

21. “Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

22. “There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it’s the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

23. “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.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

24. “I believe that great success is possible in any field – from music to mathematics to macro trading.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

25. “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.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

26. “The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE’s?”

— Paul Tudor Jones

27. “You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

28. “If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

29. “If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

30. “There’s such an emphasis on making money that we’ve really taken the humanity out of business.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

31. “There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

32. “We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It’s threatening the very underpinnings of our society.”

— Paul Tudor Jones