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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
Jesse Livermore -
"I can't sleep" answered the nervous one. "Why not?" asked the friend. "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?" "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.
Jesse Livermore
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No one ever went broke by taking a profit.
Jesse Livermore -
The market always does what it should do, but not always when
Jesse Livermore -
When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.
Jesse Livermore -
There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side
Jesse Livermore -
There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.
Jesse Livermore -
If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.
Jesse Livermore