It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

- Edwin Lefevre

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.

- Edwin Lefevre

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…

- Edwin Lefevre

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…

- Edwin Lefevre

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…

- Edwin Lefevre

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…

- Edwin Lefevre

Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

- Edwin Lefevre

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…

- Edwin Lefevre

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…

- Edwin Lefevre