Occupation: Journalist Birth: 1871 Death: 1943
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!.
And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you..
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….
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..
That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along..
A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases..
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….
The speculator is not an investor..
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….
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….
The game taught me the game..
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street..
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..
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….
The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper..
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….
TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them..
The public always wants to be told..
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….
As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down..