Wall St Quotes · Page 13

In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.

— Louis Rukeyser

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

— Adam McKay

Regardless of how or where you enter Wall Street, use your inherent skills and strengths to succeed.

— Adena Friedman

Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.

— Simon Baker

Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.

— Andrew Yang

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..

— Jimmy Breslin

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

— Peter Schiff

I've been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when…

— Keith Rothfus

I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

— Damian Lewis

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and…

— Michael Moore

You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming…

— Adam Driver

When I started on Wall Street, there was pretty good diversity in those junior ranks. And you know what? It hasn't made…

— Sallie Krawcheck

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately…

— Graydon Carter

I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of…

— Smedley Butler

I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge…

— Kate O'Mara

Wall Street banks have used the same tactic that Bush used in the war on terror - fear - and they've basically…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think…

— Peter Mayle

During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by…

— Thomas Naylor

I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to…

— Kabir Sehgal

Russian police force, fortunately, so far, do not use batons, tear gas or any other extreme measures of instilling order, something that…

— Vladimir Putin

“This generation of Wall Street CEOs could be the ones to forfeit America’s trust. When the history of the Great Recession is…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

I've heard [Bernie] Sanders comments, and it's really caused me to wonder who's left in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.…

— Hillary Clinton

It's important to underscore that it is not mediocre test scores that have caused the major problems in the U.S. It has…

— Howard Gardner

“But it was really the then-popular right-wing demagogue Glenn Beck who gave Republicans a taste of what was to come as the…

— Mark Lilla

In a Bloomberg poll, 88% of respondents said that Wall Street bonuses should either be banned outright or taxed at 50%. Just…

— Felix Salmon

“What on earth is happening here in Germany?’ Maud said: ‘We were doing all right in the mid-twenties. We had a democratic…

— Ken Follett

“The American Dream betrayed even those who achieved it, lonely in their overtime careers and their McMansions, narcotized to the ongoing ruination…

— Charles Eisenstein

“The new structure of the U.S. stock market had removed the big Wall Street banks from their historic, lucrative role as intermediary.…

— Michael Lewis

“Bill Clinton's political formula for seizing the presidency was simple. He made money tight in the ghettos and let it flow free…

— Matt Taibbi

“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. The…

— Christopher Reeve

“Today’s equivalent is probably ‘get an engineering degree’, but it will not necessarily be as lucrative. A third of Americans who graduated…

— Edward Luce

“Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the…

— Warren Buffett

You've heard of the Wolf of Wall Street? I was like the Wolf of L.A.

— Bruce Buffer

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

— Andrew Young

Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama.

— Nina Easton

I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us.

— Donald Trump

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

— Jill Stein

It's important for women to continue to break through barriers in our industry, in politics, in Wall Street.

— Anna Gunn

Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress.

— Bernie Sanders