Sunday, January 02, 2011

Money Isn't Everything

Fav Quotes form Wall Street Money Never Sleeps

Gordon Gekko: If there's one thing I learned in prison it's that money is not the prime commodity in our lives... time is.


Gordon Gekko: Stop telling lies about me and I'll stop telling the truth about you. 

Gordon Gekko: Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs? They get slaughtered. 

Gordon Gekko: All fires start with a well meaning spark

Bretton Woods: Only the obsessive compulsive or the insecure egotistical feel the need to collect things.

Gordon Gekko: "Don't run when you lose, don't whine when it hurts. It's like the first grade, Jerry...nobody likes a crybaby."


(At a nightclub) Hedge fund PM leans into Quant and explains...

Hedge fund PM: Boeing, ticker BA... Big Ass. Goodyear, ticker GT... Great Tits.
Quant analyst: Oh, it's like a code


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Pièce de résistance

.. my very favorite that gave me chills. "Everybody has a Number."