Top 15 Edwin Lefèvre Quotes

The public always wants to be told.

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

Oh, Mr. Wolff, what do you think of Balzac? "
Josh politely ceased to masticate, swallowed and answered, " I never trade them Curb stocks!

The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper.

When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.

There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.

As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.

As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.

It didn't require a Sherlock Holmes to size up the situation.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

To subordinate my judgment to his desires was the undoing of me.