After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
"On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any.… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself,… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Disregarding the big swing and trying to jump in and out was fatal to me. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations. In a bull… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market all the… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as he figured… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
