Jesse Livermore Quotes

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

I think I'm still a lone wolf, internally. And I always will be.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.