Occupation: Journalist Birth: 1871 Death: 1943
Being broke is a very efficient educational agency..
The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on ear….
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on t….
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….
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street..
The public always wants to be told..
The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they ha….
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….
TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them..
The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper..
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..
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 remai….
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the o….
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 diagnos….
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….
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..
The game taught me the game..
As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down..
A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases..
The speculator is not an investor..
That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along..