Big shots Quote by Warren Buffett

What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only…

— Richard Grasso

I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of…

— Warren Buffett

Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might…

— Steve Bannon

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as…

— Christine Lagarde

Wall Street banks have used the same tactic that Bush used in the war on terror - fear - and they've basically said that…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill…

— Amy Poehler

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this…

— Studs Terkel

Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of…

— Argus Hamilton

As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and…

— James P. Hoffa

I wasn't on the board of Lehman Brothers. I was a banker, and I was proud of it and I traveled the country and…

— Sean Hannity

In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80…

— Bob Diamond