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Trading Places (1983)

“I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.” – Louis Winthorpe III

"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
 

Wall Street (1987)

“Ever wonder why fund managers can’t beat the S&P 500? ‘Cause they’re sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.” – Gordon Gekko

"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
 

Pretty Woman (1990)

“You and I are such similar creatures, Vivian. We both screw people for money.” – Edward Lewis

"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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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

“A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing, always be closing.” – Blake

"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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"I think my mask of sanity is about to slip" - Patrick Bateman

"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
 

hatakeuchiha

Minor detail, but is it not ‘I have fashion friends’? Fashioned sounds wrong.

Yeah it is technically "I had fashion friends"

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"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
 
Zyn_God98

Look at Him, that's my quant. My quantitative. My math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face. I'll give you a hint, his name is Yang. Yeah, I'm sure of the math. 

haha that's a good one

"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
 

I know you're not standing on your front porch with a bag of money waiting for me to call you. But I'm not some 18-year-old selling a cure for AIDS. I'm 46 years old, I have 22 years market experience, I know this business. So pick up your skirt, grab your balls, and lets go make some money

 

More recently, "life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get."

Edit:  I did not realize that topic was about finance movies.

 

“Nature didn’t select me. I selected myself by harnessing my nature.” 
 

“Lots of guys watch Bruce Lee movies. Doesn’t mean you can do karate.”

“Your read was good with the information you had. You’re new. You’ll figure it out…or you’ll be gone.”

“What’s the point of having fuck you money if you never say fuck you?”

-Bobby Axelrod

 

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"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
 

"I'm not talking about some Wall Street stiff making 500k and being comfortable. I'm talking about liquid. 50, 100m $. A player or nothing"

"it's all about the bucks. The rest is conversation"

 

Margin Call:

Seth Bregman: "Will, did you really make two and a half million last year?"
Will Emerson: "Yeah, sure."
Seth Bregman: "How did you spend it all?"
Will Emerson: "It goes quite quickly. You know, you learn to spend what's in your pocket."
Peter Sullivan: "Two and a half million goes quickly?"
Will Emerson: "All right, let's see. So the taxman takes half up front, so you're left with one and a quarter. My mortgage takes another 300 grand. I send 150 home for my parents, you know, keep 'em going. So what's that?"
Peter Sullivan: "800?"
Peter Sullivan: "All right, 800. Spent 150 on a car. About 75 on restaurants. Probably 50 on clothes. I put 400 away for a rainy day."
Seth Bregman: "That's smart."
Will Emerson: "Yeah, as it turns out, 'cause it looks like the storm's coming."
Peter Sullivan: "You still got 125."
Will Emerson: "Yeah, well I did spend 76,520 dollars on hookers, booze and dancers. But mainly hookers."
Peter Sullivan: "76.5?"
Will Emerson: "I was a little shocked initially, but then I realized I could claim most of it back as entertainment. It's true!"

The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.
 

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