Hey Guys,
I see some posters with quotes as their sigs so I wanted to hear some people's favorite quotes.
Try to put your favorite ones that pertain to money, banking, wall street, banking and things of that nature.
or just put your favorite all time quote. no matter the subject.
thought it would be interesting to see.
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"'EBITDA!' Taylor screamed in a last ditch effort, craning his neck to increase his range. But it was no use.... The girl was now long gone—Banking had given him a set of cheat codes to the game of life, but they no longer seemed to be working."
http://www.leveragedsellout.com/2008/05/layoff-season/
Gotta love screaming finance terms, particularly EBITDA, as an attempt to attract women. Love LSO.
50 Cent on effort: "Somebody once asked me: 50 When do you sleep? Sleep is for those people that are broke. I have an opportunity to make a dream a reality."
This one from H.G. Wells is so appropriate to banking it is scary: "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
And finally, consider the quote in my signature, both as you move through your own career, and also as you examine your own methods for persuading others to follow you.
Not from a movie or anything but one that I still love, "No one gives a shit if you're tired, no one gives a shit if you're hungry, no one cares. Just do your fucking job and hope you make it to bonus season."
Audentes Fortuna Iuvat.
Life is easy, YOU suck... -some guy from the Simpsons
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." - J. Paul Getty
That is EPIC, lol.
Regards
Another good one for you bookish folks:
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. - Adam Smith
"lies, damn lies and statistics"
Ahh, I see you can't site the quote! Do you think it was Twain or Disraeli?
i'm going for Disraeli as i'm english.
Here are some inspirational quotes from Kenny Powers
Alot of people ask me, “Kenny Powers you’re a giant star - you can get any woman. Have you ever paid for sex?” The answer is yes, I have. Several times in fact. And its actually kind of cool. You can negotiate practically anything, and sometimes even just kinda do stuff in the moment you never agreed to pay for, and it goes by without much argument.
(Kenny haggling with prostitute) All right, so let me get this straight. I’m gonna pay for a blow job, and I gotta pay for a goddamn hotel room too? That just seems like I’m spending too much money for nothing. I’ve got a house. You can just get over here. I can just do the blowjob here. And can I wear the Scream mask? The mask from Scream? While I do you from behind.
Undaunted I knew the game was mine to win. Just like in life, all of my successes depend on me. I’m the man who has the ball, I’m the man who can throw it faster than fck. So that is why I am better than everyone in the world. Kiss my ass and suck my dck. Everyone.
But a true champion, face to face with his darkest hour, will do whatever it takes to rise above. A man fights, and fights, and then fights some more. Because surrender is death, and death is for pussies.
2 quotes you wont want to hear from a money manager
"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." Frank Hubbard
“That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye” Richard Armour quotes
"You and I are such similar creatures, Vivian. We both screw people for money." -Edward Lewis
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars - the rest I just squandered." George Best
Really the whole speech but i like the last paragraph for quotable purposes:
"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns—or dollars. Take your choice—there is no other—and your time is running out."
"Trying to buy a mortgage bank in the midst of the subprime crisis was the equivalent of being a noodle salesman in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb went off. Not a lot of noodles left or even a person -- and that's what happened to us on this deal."
-My good friend Steve Schwarzman
^^^ The username Gordon Gekko really wasn't taken until just now? What the fuck is wrong with this forum!?
Haha, the space in the middle of Gordon Gekko is the difference. There must be 50 derivations of GG on this site.
What are your favorite quotes from financial leaders? (Originally Posted: 12/07/2013)
A personal favorite of mine is Dick Fuld's "I am soft, I'm lovable, but what I really want to do is reach in, rip out their heart and eat it before they die."
Yes, I know "leader" generally has a positive connotation.
not from a specific person but the motto of the London Stock Exchange. Ipsum meum pactum (my word is my bond)
"I'm fucking smart."
It's "quotations" not "quotes". Just a little bugbear of mine.
"And that's why I'm richer than you."
"Who lost the hundy?"
"I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder." Icahn
"A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it." -- Carl Icahn
"Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful" -- Warren Buffett
"I offer to give you $1 Billion for one of your arms. Would you sell it to me?"
"No."
"Well, now you have a $1 Billion asset right there." (on how valuations and how our financial system works). forgot the owner of the quote. some ceo.
"I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will." - Buffett
"I'm doing God's Work" - Lloyd Blankfein
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