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 eighths in the world. Edwin Lefevre More Quotes by Edwin Lefevre More Quotes From Edwin Lefevre No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play. Edwin Lefevre intelligent play men 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. Edwin Lefevre loss jobs men As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down. Edwin Lefevre manipulation down-and said A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself. Edwin Lefevre operators fighting enemy When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it? Edwin Lefevre he-man want men When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell. Edwin Lefevre failing buying needs 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 the stock market; and it is 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 speculation. Edwin Lefevre games mistake men 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 earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal. Edwin Lefevre ignorance animal book As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety. Edwin Lefevre safety matter mean
