desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many
losses in Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home
some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages. I was only a
kid, remember. I did not know then what I learned later, what made me fifteen years
later, wait two long weeks and see a stock on which I was very bullish go up thirty
points before I felt that it was safe to buy it. I was broke and was trying to get back, and
I couldn't afford to play recklessly. I had to be right, and so I waited. That was in 1915.
-Jesse Livermore