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Jesse Livermore

An early-twentieth-century speculator whose career and hard lessons are chronicled in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.

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Money is made by sitting, not trading.
Jesse Livermore · widely attributed
The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.
Jesse Livermore · Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, 1923
There is nothing like losing all you have in the world for teaching you what not to do.
Jesse Livermore · Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, 1923
The game taught me the game. And it did not spare the rod while teaching.
Jesse Livermore · Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, 1923
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