It's easier to write about what you know. I wouldn't write about a Wall Street broker, for example. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America. — Jimmy John Liautaud Copy Share Image
I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they're too big to fail. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“Let the Wall Street investors curse us if they wish, we will stick to this principle…” — Think Maverick Copy Share Image
Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks. — Bernard Madoff Copy Share Image
It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Donald, I'm not sure if you're even aware of this, but the only difference between you and Michael Douglas from the movie,… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“Ronan, for his part, couldn’t quite believe how ordinary the people on Wall Street were. “It’s a whole industry of bullshit,” he… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“The gist of Laszlo’s pitch for the equity department was this question: When you turn on your television at six-thirty and Dan… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“the Wall Street Journal brilliantly quoted President Eisenhower: “Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Certainly, Occupy Wall Street protesters have different ideas about the movement's mission. Many of the marchers I met even disagreed on the… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
life becomes satire in real time, what good is the premiere satire magazine? It might as well just be the newspaper. You… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Remember we had two Democratic houses of Congress along with the [Barack] Obama administration that laid out those policies before they lost… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I heard Governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn't a Wall Street financier like he was. Do you… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“We were taking out mortgages we couldn’t afford because they were camouflaged to look as if we had a reasonable chance of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Images are taking over, and writers are a dying breed. The Norman Mailers of today are reduced to writing pun-filled captions for… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I have this theory," says Andy Stone, seated in his office at Prudential-Bache Securities. "Wall Street makes its best producers into managers.… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Graham developed his core principles, which are at least as valid today as they were during his lifetime: A stock is not… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I gave up trying to establish where progress lay, and where revolution, or to see the plot -- as Amparo's [Brazilian] comrades… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“As I’ve said, there are left-wing believers in nonexistent conspiracies and other fantasies, but they’re not nearly as numerous or influential. During… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Where to find the borrowers with high FICO scores? Here the Wall Street bond trading desks exploited another blind spot in the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image