A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. — Bernard Baruch
I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker. — Groucho Marx
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. — Mark Twain
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. — Benjamin Disraeli
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight. — Daniel Drew
Only two people can buy at the bottom and sell at the top- One is God and the other is a liar. — Vijay Kedia
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham
We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' — Warren Buffett
Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.' — Max Keiser
Stocks are bought and sold on the market because both, the buyer and seller hope to benefit by their actions. Neither are there to do another a favour. — Thomas Phelps
The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first. — Ronald Reagan
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. — Warren Buffett
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing. — J. Paul Getty
Short Broker Quotes
It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology. — Donald T. Regan
Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy. — Scott Joplin
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. — Honore de Balzac
The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you. — Robert Kiyosaki
A crafty knave needs no broker. — Horace
I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker. — Barbara Corcoran
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art. — Jeff Koons
What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives. — John Grant
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? — George Carlin
Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke. — Carolyn Wells
Heartbroken Quotes
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. — Fulton J. Sheen
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. — Mineko Iwasaki
Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together — Colleen Hoover
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. — Ann Landers
The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling. — Hiro Mashima
My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing. — Fred Haise
Brokerage Quotes
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. — Unknown
It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management. — Peter Schiff
The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes. — Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.
In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. — Ron Chernow
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. — Ron Chernow
[Adviser is] the ones who do the job very well are the ones who lay out the range of options, filter down the range of options that are available to the president, lay them out in an honest, brokerage way and then let the president make the choice among those options. — Lawrence O'Donnell
Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds — Michael Steinhardt
I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself. — Ben Stein
The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week. — Jordan Belfort
Stockbroker Quotes
The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine. — Noam Chomsky
We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land. — Aneurin Bevan
My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart. — Jackie Mason
Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be. — William J. Bernstein
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market. — Michael Lewis
A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone. — Woody Allen
I can relate to anyone. I can hang out with stoners, skaters, surfers, stockbrokers, lawyers, athletes, rappers. I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them. — Barry Zito
Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find. — Charlie Finley
Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with. — Walter Schloss
The Government Securities Act gave the Treasury Department some rulemaking authority over all government securities brokers and dealers. — Jerome Powell
I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party. — Jonathan Moyo
Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients. Henry Ford never diversified, Bill Gates didn't diversify. The way to get rich is to put your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket very carefully. And make sure you have the right basket. — Jim Rogers
I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me. — Ashin Wirathu
I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is. — Leo Buscaglia
One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing. — Kathleen Wynne
We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda. — Bernard Goldberg
Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace. — Margaret Thatcher
I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward. — Otto von Bismarck
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. — Jimmy Breslin
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation. — Benjamin Graham
So I conjured one of the brokers and promised him my soul if he’d protect her. (Zephyra) You can’t do that. Only a demon can. (Stryker) You’re such a brainiac, baby. And to think, I thought I married you for those amazing abs. Who knew all that brainpower was buried under those bulging biceps? (Zephyra) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise. — Warren Buffett
Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud. — Michael Lewis
There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor. — William Shakespeare
Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker. — Ogden Nash
I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer. — Barbara Corcoran
The same with the mortgage brokers that were selling people mortgages they couldn't afford. We shouldn't pay them on each mortgage they write. They should have what they call "skin in the game," where they've got to reimburse us if the guy who sold the mortgage defaults. — Richard Thaler
If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one. — William J. Bernstein
Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others. — Elizabeth McCracken
I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit. — Barbara Boxer
Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have. — Maria Bartiromo
We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely. — Chris Matthews
When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt. — Seth Klarman
The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again, take in to send out again, and the greatest Part of their vast Commerce consists in being supply'd from All Parts of the World, that they may supply All th World Again. — Daniel Defoe
In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction. — Roger Staubach
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. — Oscar Wilde
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature. — Sam Harris
I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something? — Kemp Muhl
The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists. — Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. — Frank Stella
Think of a new girlfriend is trotted out in front of friends and family like a cattle auction, to the winks and nods of passive commodity brokers, who all have a stake in this female slave auction. — Bryant H. McGill
Tillerson, at ExxonMobil, brokered multibillion-dollar deals with Russia, meeting with Putin multiple times. In 2013, he received the Order of Friendship award from Putin himself. But Tillerson today said he'd support continuing sanctions against Russia for now. He also implied his intimate knowledge of Russia meant he understood its strategy, and could anticipate its moves, to America's benefit. — Margaret Warner
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