Edwin Lefèvre

"There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape."

"As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down."

"To subordinate my judgment to his desires was the undoing of me."

"In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent."

"A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases."

"And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you."

"There is nothing like losing all you have in the world for teaching you what not to do. And when you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win. Did …"

"One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world."