Action Quote by Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

— Warren Buffett

Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

— Bernard Madoff

I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what happens when…

— Michael Lewis

... the loss of public confidence in the financial community growing out of its own conduct in recent years. I insist that more damage…

— Benjamin Graham

Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

— Bernard Madoff

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world,…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

When you do make losses, or you have businesses that don't succeed, it's about knowing when to stop and do something else.

— Peter Jones

In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting…

— James Surowiecki

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

— John Maynard Keynes

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

— Robert Kiyosaki