“The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper.
And it remains on paper.”

— Edwin Lefèvre, book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXI, P. 257

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American journalist 1871–1943

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