Culture Quote by Kurt Eichenwald

“I’d thought it strange, after the financial crisis, in which Goldman had played such an important role, that the only Goldman Sachs employee who…

— Michael Lewis

“it took on average 279 days before companies that had been breached came to realize it or were told by someone else. The”

— Ted Koppel

“How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at Salomon that…

— Michael Lewis

“If we didn't execute bankers and rogue traders found guilty of financial mischief, it might give them the clear signal that it's actually okay,…

— Jasper Fforde

“two-thirds of companies across a spectrum of industries didn’t realize they had been breached until someone outside the company informed them.”

— Ted Koppel

“People who understand banks got it into the position it is in now,”

— Terry Pratchett

“The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did with it…

— John Steinbeck

“If anything, the unmistakable clues provided by the reports that highly intelligent and politically aware central bankers and Treasury officials became, as a collective,…

— Bernard Connolly

“All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with.”

— Lindsey Davis

“This was classic regulatory arbitrage. Bank managers were not unaware of the risks they courted. Wall Street has simply never kowtowed to regulations that…

— Danielle DiMartino Booth

“It was a technique as old as the bazaar, the willingness to walk away from a deal.”

— Daniel Silva

“Still, I learned something important from my short time as a market vendor: once you start trading for yourself, you start thinking for yourself.…

— Yeonmi Park