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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.
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No one ever went broke by taking a profit.
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I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.
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Most people, whether bull or bear, when they are right, are right for the wrong reason, in my opinion.
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I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.
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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
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Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.
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I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and my own thinking. But I can tell you that after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies - the strongest and truest in the world: underlying conditions. They were helping me with all their might.
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To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.
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I can't sleep answered the nervous one. Why not? asked the friend. I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do? Sell down to the sleeping point, answered the friend.
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The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.
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When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.
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The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.
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A man must believe in himself and his judgement if he expects to make a living at this game. That is why I don't believe in tips.
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One of the most helpful things that anybody 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. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.
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Money is made by sitting, not trading.
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On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any. If they asked him point-blank for his opinion about the wisdom of their commitments he used a favorite race-track maxim of his: You can't tell till you bet.
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Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad.
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Never buy at the bottom, and always sell too soon.
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