“As a trader you often walk on the blade. Be careful and don't step off.”

— Marc Rich

Advice to a new employee. Quoted in The Economist, 6 July 2013 http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21580438-marc-rich-king-commodities-died-june-26th-aged-78-marc-rich

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