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. — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
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… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
“If you do not know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out.” — Edwin Lefèvre Copy Share Image
When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell. — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it? — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play. — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
“Speculators buy the trend; investors are in for the long haul; "they are a different breed of cats." One reason that people lose money… — Edwin Lefèvre Copy Share Image
One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
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… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics,… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
