One book I was often told to read was "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator," first published in 1923.
And he ignores Mr. Sarnoff's claim that Mr. Livermore, not Mr. Lefèvre, actually wrote "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator".
Among financial history mavens, the most famous of those books is certainly "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator," first published in 1923.
"The business was tremendously profitable," wrote Edwin Lefevre in his 1923 classic, "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator," a fictionalized memoir of the life of the speculator Jesse Livermore, who got his start in bucket shops.
Thus the reader does not know who told Mr. Sarnoff that Mr. Livermore, just before his death, had claimed authorship of "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator," saying that Mr. Lefèvre served only as "editor and coach".
I mentioned once "Old Partridge", a character in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Edwin Lefèvre's account of the career of Jesse Livermore, who at the height of his success in the 1920s was among the richest men in America.
There is a passage in the most entertaining investment book ever written - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - in which the narrator, a barely disguised Jesse Livermore, tells of "old Partridge", a fatherly figure who is the recipient of tips and bad luck stories from the suckers and semi-insiders who inhabit the local stockbroking office.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefèvre (Wiley, 2006).
Another equally as valuable is my 1938 edition of Lefèvres Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, complete with dust jacket.
Excepting financials, I'm a growth stock operator so I judge myself by the Russell Growth Index as well.
In Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Jessie Livermore states, "A loss never bothers me after I take it.
