Edwin Lefèvre - Stock Quotes

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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.

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

Edwin Lefèvre
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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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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If a stock doesn't act right don't touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.

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

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No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

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The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.

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

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