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Edwin Lefèvre était journaliste américain.

✵ 1871 – 1943
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“History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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

“" I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about it. It is wearing me out. What can I do?"
" Sell down to the sleeping point," answered the friend.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter X, p. 112

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

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXI, p. 249

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

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XV, p. 183

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

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XIII, p. 159

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

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XX, p. 236

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

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XIV, p. 172

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

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXI, P. 257

“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.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXIII, p. 278

“One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter V, p. 61

“In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XII, p. 149

“The public always wants to be told.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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

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

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XV, p. 186

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

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVI, p. 188

“The game taught me the game.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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?”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVII, p. 211

“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!”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter IV, p. 51

“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.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter VIII, p. 89

“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.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter VII, p. 81

“The speculator is not an investor.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter X, p. 114

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

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter II, p. 14

“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.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter IX, p. 103

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

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XI, p. 134

“the public never is independently responsive to news.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter VI, p. 69

“A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.”

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Edwin Lefèvre livre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter I, p. 2

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