Edwin Lefèvre Quotes

Edwin Lefèvre was an American journalist, writer, and diplomat, who is most noted for his writings on Wall Street business. Wikipedia  

✵ 1871 – 1943
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Famous Edwin Lefèvre Quotes

“History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.”

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVIII, p. 217

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

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

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

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

Edwin Lefèvre Quotes about the world

Edwin Lefèvre Quotes

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

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

“The public always wants to be told.”

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXIV, p. 287

“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

“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

“That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.
You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.”

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

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