Edwin Lefèvre

Quotes

1. 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.

   p. 61

2. 

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

   p. 226

3. 

   The game taught me the game.

   p. 29

4. 

   " 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.

   p. 112

5. 

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

   p. 188

6. 

   That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.

   You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.

   p. 134

7. 

   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.

   p. 89

8. 

   The public always wants to be told.

   p. 287

9. 

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

   p. 2

10. 

    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.

    p. 149

11. 

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

    p. 159

12. 

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

    p. 236