I believe that great success is possible in any field - from music to mathematics to macro trading.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.
The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.
I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.
If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.
I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.