Edwin Lefèvre Quotes

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

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

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.

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

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

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

When it comes to selling stocks, it is plain that nobody can sell unless somebody wants those stocks. If you operate on a large scale you will have to bear that in mind all the time.

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

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

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

History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.

The public always wants to be told.

There is nothing like losing all you have in the world for teaching you what not to do. And when you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win. Did you get that? You begin to learn!

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