# Quote — Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

> " I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about it. It is wearing me out. What can I do?"
>
> " Sell down to the sleeping point," answered the friend.

- Author: [Edwin Lefèvre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwin-lefevre.md)
- Book: [Reminiscences of a Stock Operator](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwin-lefevre/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator.md)
- Page: 112
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edwin_Lef%C3%A8vre#Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Operator_(1923)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwin-lefevre/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/i-am-carrying

## More from this book

> The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

p. 278 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwin-lefevre/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/the-speculators-deadly.md)

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

p. 186 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwin-lefevre/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/as-i-have.md)

> When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

p. 211 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwin-lefevre/reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/when-the-man.md)