Quotes tagged ‘Wall Street’

“Your continued existence is a sharp reminder that the ones in charge of so much hardship during the '08 crisis were not punished. And your blatant disregard for the law, made obvious months ago through your (for the Melvin lawyers out there: alleged) illegal naked short selling and more recently you…”

— ssauronn, old.reddit.com

“Let me tell you who was wrong: every single hedge fund. Name after name, when it comes to innovation, when it comes to growth, when it comes to people trying to do fundamentally useful things in the world, if it doesn't fit into the mold that Wall Street wants, they try to organize against it.”

— Chamath Palihapitiya, businessinsider.com

“If analysts knew what the fuck they were talking about they wouldn't be analysts. They'd be billionaires.”

— gravityCaffeStocks, reddit.com

“Investors were already worried about their valuations and ability to generate consistent profitability before the coronavirus crisis.”

— Paul R. La Monica, cnn.com

“These Wall Street guys, you want them drunk enough to get their credit card, but sober enough to sign a check.”

— Lorene Scafaria, Ramona Vega, Jennifer Lopez, imdb.com

“These Wall Street guys, you see what they did to this country? They stole from everybody. Hard working people lost everything, and not one of these douchebags went to jail.”

— Lorene Scafaria, Ramona Vega, Jennifer Lopez, imdb.com

“I'll tell you, sitting across the table from the big banks, I witnessed the arrogance of power. Wealthy bankers accusing innocent homeowners of fault, as if Wall Street's mess was of the people's making.”

— Kamala Harris, cnn.com

“There're two kinds of men on Wall Street: standard and poor.”

— Dan Dietz, Alison Jeffers, Elisabeth Röhm, imdb.com

“Uncle Michael, listen—I know you're into banks and Wall Street, but everyone knows you're the final word, you're like the Supreme Court. All I want to do is protect you from these guys and your lawyers can't do that.”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Don Vincent 'Vinnie' Mancini-Corleone, Andy Garcia, imdb.com

“Joey Zasa: I earned that territory with my talent. Commission gave it to me, and you approved. Michael Corleone: Yes. Vincent Mancini: Hey, Uncle Mike, I came here for the party. I'm not here to ask you for any kind of help. I could just kill this bastard. He's the one who needs the help. Michael Co…”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Don Michael Corleone, Al Pacino, imdb.com

“A real New York hotel! How many Wall Street bankers have had their first prostitute here?”

— Kirk J. Rudell, Francine Smith (voice), Wendy Schaal, imdb.com

“Right, yeah, like nothing shady ever happened in a fully furnished office? You ever hear about Wall Street, Morty? Y-Y-Y'know what those guys do i-in-in their fancy boardrooms? They take their balls and they dip 'em in cocaine and wipe 'em all over each other—y'know, Grandpa goes around and he does…”

— David Phillips, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com

“The Quants. Since 1602, when the Dutch East India company first offers shares to the public, smart, highly trained mathematicians have tried without success to solve that market.”

— Wes Taylor, Brian Koppelman, Mike "Wags" Wagner, David Costabile, imdb.com

“Billy Bean never won a world-series.”

— Wes Taylor, Brian Koppelman, Mike "Wags" Wagner, David Costabile, imdb.com

“Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.”

— Sam Esmail, Tyrell Wellick, Martin Wallström, imdb.com

“You have to view a system as a whole. As opposed to what's popular and prevelent today which is trigger models. There is this cause and effect mentality.”

— Ed Seykota, youtube.com

“I stopped trying to make the system wrong, stopped trying to blame people. And I started to wonder, well what's really going on? How does the thing work? When I started thinking that way, things started to get clearer for me.”

— Ed Seykota, youtube.com

“Govopoly means monopoly by government sanction.”

— Ed Seykota, youtube.com

“The premise of the book and the model, which I call teh assymilation model. Has to do with the assymilation or the take over or absorption of free competition sector of our economy by what I call the govoply system.”

— Ed Seykota, youtube.com

“We noted earlier that US equity futures were extending losses after the close, but the real panic action is in the volatility complex. Putting today's VIX move in context, this is among the biggest ever.”

— Zerohedge, zerohedge.com