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Quotes About Finance

I noticed that in advances as well as declines, stock prices were apt to show certain habits, so to speak. There was no end of parallel cases and these made precedents to guide me.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Whatever happens in the stock market to-day has happened before and will happen again.
~ Edwin Lefevre
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.
~ Edwin Lefevre
big swing its initial impulse, the fact is that its continuance is not the result of manipulation by pools or artifice by financiers, but depends upon basic conditions. And no matter who opposes it, the swing must inevitably run as far and as fast and as long as the impelling forces determine.
~ Edwin Lefevre
I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.
~ Edwin Lefevre
You cannot be dead sure of anything in a speculative operation. It was the experience I have just told you that made me add the unexpectable to the unexpected in my list of hazards.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Experiences had taught me to beware of buying a stock that refuses to follow the group-leader.
~ Edwin Lefevre
I have found an easy way and I stick to it. I simply cannot help making money. I will tell you my secret if you wish. It is this: I never buy at the bottom and I always sell too soon.
~ Edwin Lefevre
If you do not know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Stocks are manipulated to the highest point possible and then sold to the public on the way down.
~ Edwin Lefevre
A stock which it is desired to distribute should be manipulated to the highest possible point and then sold.
~ Edwin Lefevre
You know, it's a bull market!
~ Edwin Lefevre
People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Addison G. Jerome was the acknowledged king of the Public Board in the spring of 1863. His market tips, they tell me, were considered as good as cash in bank. From all accounts he was a great trader and made millions.
~ Edwin Lefevre
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.
~ Edwin Lefevre
That is why I repeat that I never argue with the tape.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Wall Street professionals know that acting on "inside" tips will break a man more quickly than famine, pestilence, crop failures, political readjustments or what might be called normal accidents. There is no asphalt boulevard to success in Wall Street or anywhere else. Why additionally block traffic?
~ Edwin Lefevre
Coronavirus not only harms the body; however, it also damages the financial strength and social life, even that abandons shaking hands each other in medical circles; indeed, it is an evil virus challenge.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Saving money Today secures, eases, and beautifies Tomorrow.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The worst and legalized dishonesty is: Promote your writing and work with own finance, and risk to catch fame, and sign to let the promoter to earn money upon that, which you envisage and deserve.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
~ Ehud Barak
I learned many interesting things from Delia: for example, that she and Gulya had both married alcoholics, but Delia's alcoholic had taken all her money, whereas Gulya had managed her alcoholic well and taken all his money.
~ Elif Batuman
I learned many interesting things from Delia: for example, that she and Gulya had both married alcoholics, but Delia's alcoholic had taken all her money, whereas Gulya had managed her alcoholic well and taken all his money.
~ Elif Batuman
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
~ Anthony Trollope