“History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVIII, p. 217
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“History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVIII, p. 217
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XV, p. 183
“To subordinate my judgment to his desires was the undoing of me.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XIII, p. 159
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXI, p. 249
“TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVI, p. 188
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter IV, p. 51
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXIII, p. 278
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter V, p. 61
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter VIII, p. 89
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter X, p. 112
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XX, p. 236
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXII, p. 265 (See also: New York Curb Exchange)
“Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XIV, p. 172
“It didn't require a Sherlock Holmes to size up the situation.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XV, p. 182
“The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper.
And it remains on paper.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXI, P. 257
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XII, p. 149
“The public always wants to be told.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXIV, p. 287
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XIX, p. 226
“As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XV, p. 186
“The game taught me the game.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter III, p. 29
“When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVII, p. 211
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter VII, p. 81
“The speculator is not an investor.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter X, p. 114
“A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter II, p. 14
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter IX, p. 103
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XI, p. 134
“the public never is independently responsive to news.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter VI, p. 69
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter I, p. 2