Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.
— Steven Levitt
Was greed that broke Wall Street, not the lack of financial algorithms.
— Joan D. Chittister
The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.
— Simon Baker
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
— Tina Brown
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
— Matt Taibbi
I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.
— Jami Attenberg
I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.
— Woody Harrelson
Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.
— Maria Cantwell
When the world is mine, then you all will be the 99.9%.
— Scott Jonathan Nixon
Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.
— Sumner Redstone
From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.
— Craig Ferguson
I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.
— Chelsea Clinton
Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.
— George Soros
But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.
— Eugene O'Neill
Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
— Barack Obama
If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.
— Will Rogers
Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.
— Peggy Noonan
Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.
— Will Rogers
Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'
— Sharon Jones
A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.
— Steve Rubel
Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.
— Lawrence Lessig
Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.
— Carolyn Wells
On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.
— Michael Lewis
But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes.
— Michael Lewis
The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.
— Michael Moore
Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession. — Chuck Schumer
We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got some of the Wall Street firms a little bit in trouble. — Frank Quattrone
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.. — Jimmy Breslin
I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor's best friend and Wall Street's worst nightmare. — Jonathan Clements
There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I Believe The Failure To Punish Wall Street Criminals Is The Core Cause Of Our Sick Economy. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game. — John Ensign
Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks. — Bernard Madoff
Wisdom ... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue. — Robin Thicke
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. — Graydon Carter
The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street. — Dave Brat
Wall Street has blanketed America in a miasma of cynicism, and much of it is directed against Wall Street. The Street has only itself to blame. — Robert B. Reich
Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement. — Monica Crowley
Wall Street crime, in part, is a confidence game in which the criminal justice system itself is the mark. — Matt Taibbi
In an economy that is overleveraged to historic proportions, economic stimuli will not do the trick. — Kenneth Eade
Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor. — Charles Dow
The techniques that were used in the 1930s to reset the economy will simply not work today. Gordon L. Eade — Kenneth Eade
I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill. — Mike Pence
If I looked good in 'Wolf of Wall Street,' I cannot take full credit; it was because of the hair extensions and makeup. — Margot Robbie
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. — David Lynch
Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. — Michael Moore
'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it. — Michael Douglas
Ronan, for his part, couldn't quite believe how ordinary the people on Wall Street were. "It's a whole industry of bullshit," he said. — Michael Lewis
I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax. — Michael Cera
At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance. — Hill Harper
This completed the curious reversal in roles that occurred in the early 1980s, when thrifts became traders and traders thrifts. — Michael Lewis
I lived on Fulton Street in an enormous studio - I needed a bicycle to get to the toilet, about half a mile between two streets - next to Wall Street. — Erro
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible. — Maureen Corrigan
I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum. — David Letterman
The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero. — Matt Taibbi
I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children? — Steve Martin
I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings. — Scott Kahn
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki
Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens. — Robert Kiyosaki
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that ... Masters of the Universe. — Tom Wolfe
I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street. — Bernie Sanders
Wall Street paid the most for what I could do, which was nothing. — Michael Lewis
Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes. — Jeff Bezos
I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them. — Dan Jenkins
Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway. — Warren Buffett
The person in the business suit who works on Wall Street, who does their work perfectly, is probably evolving a lot faster, if they also meditate. — Frederick Lenz
Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments? — George W. Bush
If everyone on Wall Street abided by the rule's spirit, the rule would have established a new fairness in the U.S. stock market. — Michael Lewis
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel. — John Kenneth Galbraith
First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote. — Jim DeMint
Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know? — Dennis Quaid
I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded. — Neil Cavuto
Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party. — Bernie Sanders
The Mexican harvested strawberries; Wall Street harvested his FICO score. — Michael Lewis
Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. — Helen Thomas
Washington told Wall Street, 'We're going to let y'all regulate yourselves.' The Republicans were in charge. They never said a word. — Ronnie Musgrove
Wall Street is a place where the day begins with good buys. — Leopold Fechtner
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. — Warren Buffett
There is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture. — Benjamin Graham
Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself! — Herman Cain
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. — Harry S. Truman
All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live. — Dana Spiotta
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. — Timothy Noah
Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama. — Nina Easton
I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street. — Andrew Cuomo
Difference between rich and wealthy? Wall Street bankers are rich but they are no wealthy.Wealthy people are the ones writing their checks. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash. — Haskell Wexler
Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media. — Robert Lutz
If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and losers? — David Malpass
"What's the latest dope on Wall Street?" "My son!" — Henny Youngman
Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout. — Michele Bachmann
Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry. — Michael Shannon
The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world. — Helen Gardner
