A Poem For Traders
It's not about trading but it's about traders mind
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" Rudyard Kipling" poem 'If-'.
If you can keep your head when all about
you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men
doubt you, But make allowance for their
doubting too, If you can wait and not be
tired by waiting Or being lied about, don't
deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way
to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream-and not make dreams your
master; If you can think and not make
thoughts your aim, If you can meet with
Triumph and Disaster And treat those two
impostors just the same; If you can bear to
hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by
knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch
the things you gave your life to, broken, And
stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your
winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-
and-toss, And lose, and start again at your
beginnings And never breathe a word about
your loss; If you can force your heart and
nerve and sinew To serve your turn long
after they are gone, And so hold on when
there is nothing in you Except the Will
which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your
virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the
common touch, If neither foes nor loving
friends can hurt you, If all men count with
you, but none too much; If you can fill the
unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And which is more you'll be a Man, my son!
