End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result…

— Barney Frank

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of…

— Mo Ibrahim

“The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems than we…

— Ben Goldacre

I think that if you have a single payer system and an opt-out for people who want to pay more [for better service, etc.],…

— Charlie Munger

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

— Anonymous

Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and…

— John C. Bogle

The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation…

— James Madison

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how…

— T. Boone Pickens

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses…

— Alistair Cooke

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator…

— Benjamin Graham

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

— Helen Keller

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

— Christina Stead

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

— George Papandreou

We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may…

— Wade Davis

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore