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Quote by Jesse Lauriston 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.”

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Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Jesse Lauriston Livermore was a renowned stock trader, born on July 26, 1877, and died on November 28, 1940. He was known for his keen insight and bold investment strategies in the stock market, often referred to as the 'King of the Stock Market'. more

“It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.”

Mind Littles Artist Powerful Creative Knowing Effects Little Things Subconscious Insignificant Subconscious Mind Hunches Creative Mind Cumulative

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong.”

Sides Bears Prejudice Vices Appeals Bulls Vice Versa Steadfast Being Wrong

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“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.”

Angry Mad Arguing Tape Lungs Pneumonia

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and my own thinking. But I can tell you that after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies - the strongest and truest in the world: underlying conditions. They were helping me with all their might.”