Most Annoying Finance Jargons/Phrases

The most annoying phrases in finance with respect to all positions:

"At the end of the day"

"I'd like to get some color"

"Thanks in advance"

Whether you're listening to earnings calls etc. whatever it may be the most annoying phrases that come up...

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kmzzlets circle up
THIS THIS THIS THIS total fucking tool talk, I want to smack the jackasses that say this upside the head. We're sitting at a fucking desk, we're not circling anywhere. Fucking tool.
socola2003"can we unfuck this" is my favorite
Never heard it before, but I like it.

NOTHING IS FUCKED? -D. Fuld

Get busy living
 
Abdel
GoldmanBallSachs"I know you are busy and appreciate any time you can give me"

Unemployed and yet busy? Tell me your secret.

lol jk

haha, i wish my man. hoepfully i dind a job b4 the sectret

GBS
 

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Johnny Ringo
swagonit takes money 2 make honey

Anything SwagOn says Kills me

You mean makes you wanna kill yourself?

I eat success for breakfast...with skim milk
 
happypantsmcgeeIsn't there like a 500 post thread on this already?
Yes, and I thought about referencing it, but new stupid catchphrases are invented constantly.
Get busy living
 

"Let's gather around the campfire"

"Gimme the light, I gotta burn this"

"Put it on my chest baby"

"Guys, I'm fuggin' stoked"

"stretch your arms to the sky and return to terra firma"

 

"i wouldn't give you the steam off my shit"

"that deal's got an ass like a 12 year old boy"

"i'm not paying you cocksuckers to sit around and scratch your assholes all day"

 

"They are not competitive" "Thanks" "The client is expecting this" "Not clear" "I am at full capacity" "This is the WRONG template/font" Employee leaves with clients - "We will not talk about it" "Client connection"

Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
 

"Tactical solution / Strategic solution"

"Implementation"

Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful..
 

It is what it is Let's touch base Reach out Apple to oranges (or whatever fruit they have in mind)

Never heard them that much before outside banking

 

"Efficient frontier"

"Zero sum game"

"Crunch numbers"

"Risk adjusted"

"Hi there"

"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man." ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
 

"Fuck fundamentals, AMZN is the next AAPL. "

Yeah right jerkoff. When did Apple have a PE over 9000 selling junk at 3% markup? Same for NFLX and FB.

 

Any person: "Hi how are you?" Any other person: "Good thanks you?" Any person: "Good, good."

Automated response ftl

Fc

Calm down.
 

70% of what is said on earnings calls by analysts. Think that half the analysts make up words and phrases as they go along. Not quite sure how management even knows what the hell they're talking about and is sometimes apparent that they don't.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for freedom of thought which they seldom use.
 

In the weeds for sure. bandwidth, circle back, swing by, take a stab at, getting crushed, calling things 'strong', 'pull this' from Q/K, thnx, pls do, SO MANY

 

thks plz do lets circle back tomorrow; going fwd lets both make sure to try and understand the big picture

kill me please now

4 arms are greater than none - Machamp
 
Scandal

"Please advise"

It's worse when they say "Please advice"

I enjoying chucking internally when people use words and phrases that they clearly don't understand because they think it's the thing to do at the time or they're trying to appear in-the-loop.

"Mr. Perkins poses an extreme risk to the market when drunk."
 
RustyFork
Scandal:

"Please advise"

It's worse when they say "Please advice"

I enjoying chucking internally when people use words and phrases that they clearly don't understand because they think it's the thing to do at the time or they're trying to appear in-the-loop.

I made top 5% of my class in management consulting and I got a generic email from my 6th line manager with congrats and replied to him and said "thanks" and he replied to me in email and said "your welcome." It was the most offensive email I have ever gotten. Made me sick. This dude - the nerve of mistaking your vs you're. Disgusting. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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ManyHenny Scandal:

"Please advise"

I do this all the time, mainly to piss off/troll the people I'm emailing.

Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.

"Mr. Perkins poses an extreme risk to the market when drunk."
 

The "real world'

"It's very easy to have too many goals and be overwhelmed by them... The trick is to find the one thing you can focus on that represents every other single thing you want in life." -- @"Edmundo Braverman"
 

How come the whole time I'm jogging, I hardly sweat. But then I get home and I sit here sweating for like 10 fucking minutes.

I can't even go shower because I'll still be sweating when I get out. Just gotta sit here cooling off like a overheated plasma gun in Halo.

"Mr. Perkins poses an extreme risk to the market when drunk."
 

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