Jesse Livermore Quotations..

Jesse Livermore Quotations..


Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.
Jesse Livermore # Experience, Money, Stock Market, Profit, Commitment Quotes

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 diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.
Jesse Livermore # Stock Market, Stocks, Wrong, Smart, Profit Quotes

I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or series of tips that will make money for me than my own judgement.
Jesse Livermore # Advice, Smart, Money, Self, Experience Quotes

The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.
Jesse Livermore # Stock Market, Important Quotes

There is only one side to the stock market;....not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock market speculation.
Jesse Livermore # Stock Market, Learning, Knowledge Quotes

My plan of trading was sound enough and won oftener that it lost. If I had stuck to it I'd have been right perhaps as often as seven out of ten times.
Jesse Livermore # Winning, Loss, Smart, Strategy, Stock Market Quotes

If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money.
Jesse Livermore # Smart, Self, Money, Stocks, Profit Quotes

Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he’ll soon have no job to be on.
Jesse Livermore # Business, Buying, Selling, Job, Risk Quotes

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.
Jesse Livermore # Mistakes, Life, Learning Quotes

It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.
Jesse Livermore # Smart, Strategy, Knowledge, Wisdom Quotes

The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.
Jesse Livermore # Stock Market Quotes

From my point of view, the investors are the big gamblers. They make a bet, stay with it, and if all goes wrong, they lose it all.
Jesse Livermore # Investing, Wrong, Smart, Loss, Risk Quotes

If I hadn’t made money some of the time I might have acquired market wisdom quicker.
Jesse Livermore # Money, Stock Market, Wisdom, Experience Quotes

When I buy stocks for a rise I like to pay top prices and when I sell I must sell low or not at all.
Jesse Livermore # Stocks, Selling, Buying Quotes

Getting sore at the market doesn’t get you anywhere.
Jesse Livermore # Learning, Stock Market, Challenging, Smart Quotes

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.
Jesse Livermore # Knowledge, Intelligent, Money, Success, Learning Quotes

The game taught me the game. And it didn’t spare the rod while teaching.
Jesse Livermore # Stock Market Quotes

A man must believe in himself and his judgement if he expects to make a living at this game.
Jesse Livermore # Belief, Money, Stock Market, Success Quotes

People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.
Jesse Livermore # Money Quotes

The average man doesn’t wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn’t even wish to have to think.
Jesse Livermore # Stocks, Buying, Selling, Learning, Action Quotes

Everything happened as I had foreseen. I was dead right and ˉ I lost every cent I had! I was wiped out by something that was unusual. If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn’t be any fun in life.
Jesse Livermore # Stock Market, Different, Fun, Life, World Quotes