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• My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Powerful, Life Lesson, Self

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• They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Should Have, Two, Twenties

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• The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.

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  Wall, Home, Loss

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• It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Years, Games, Play

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• A market does not culminate in one grand blaze of glory. Neither does it end with a sudden reversal of form. A market can and does often cease to be a bull market long before prices generally begin to break.

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  Long, Doe, Bulls

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• Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Wise, Trying, Reactions

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• 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.

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  Past, Investing, Movement

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• People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

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  People, Looks, Investing

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• 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 Lauriston Livermore

  Real, Commitment, Investing

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”

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• In a narrow market, when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move within a narrow range, there is no sense in trying to anticipate what the next big movement is going to be. The thing to do is to watch the market, read the tape to determine the limits of the get nowhere prices, and make up your mind that you will not take an interest until the prices breaks through the limit in either direction.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Moving, Break Through, Mind

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• Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned - to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it. I can wait without a twinge of impatience. I can see a setback without being shaken, knowing that it is only temporary.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Men, Games, Knowing

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• I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia.

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  Pneumonia, Mad, Tape

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• Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market all the time. It can't be done, too tough on the emotions.

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  Vacation, Play, Trying

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• The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

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  Brain, Doe, Investing

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• He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

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  Reading, Tape, Investing

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• There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

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  Wall, Today, Hills

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• I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.

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  Loss, Average, Games

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• The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.

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  Men, Things To Do

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• When everyone thinks alike, there isn't much thinking taking place. Get out when you can, not when you have to.

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  Thinking, Can Not

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• Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.

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  Men, Investing, Bigs

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Average

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• If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level.

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  Sleep, Night, Gone

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• At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.

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  Running, Acting Right, Long

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• A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.

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  Men, Investing, Able

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• I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing.

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  Swings, Realizing, Bigs

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