"Financial institutions like to call what they do……" — Graydon Carter

"Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting."

— Graydon Carter

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77 Quotes by Graydon Carter

Graydon Carter has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a…
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice,…
Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and…
Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically…
Life is all about seating and lighting.
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence.…
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived…
As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a…
Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

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More Betting Quotes

This quote is filed under Betting Quotes, one of 96 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer… — Samuel Butler
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to… — Graydon Carter
I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball. — Pete Rose
When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. — B. C. Forbes
Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold… — Betty Grable
Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important… — Bruce Dern
Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign… — Wayne Allyn Root
To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names — Bohumil Hrabal
I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have… — Pete Rose
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against… — Charles de Gaulle
The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months.… — Warren Buffett

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