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Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon. — William Peter Hamilton

Bear markets are like bad colds. You hate them, but you know eventually you'll feel better. — Marvin H. McIntyre

These Ginnie Maes suck. They get longer [in maturity] when rates go up, and shorter when rates go down, and nobody wants them — Michael Lewis

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

Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action. — Jim Rogers

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. — Matt Taibbi

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

The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street. — Che Guevara

From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street. — Craig Ferguson

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity. — Warren Buffett

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did. — Barack Obama

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement. — Russ Feingold

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel. — Michael Lewis

In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. — Michael Douglas

Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest. — Gary Weiss

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

Guys who can't get a job on Wall Street get a job at Moody's, as one Goldman Sachs trader-turned-hedge fund manager put it. — Michael Lewis

I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago ... I shot my broker. — Groucho Marx

'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities. — Margot Robbie

Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail. — Hillary Clinton

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

Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two. — Elayne Boosler

Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money. — P. J. O'Rourke

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students. — Jill Stein

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

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster — Benjamin Graham

But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes. — Michael Lewis

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country. — Jon Meacham

Wall Street has become a veritable casino. — Maurice Allais

It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street. — Leslie Cockburn

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 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

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person. — Bernard Madoff

Millionaires don't use Astrology, billionaires do. — J. P. Morgan

This completed the curious reversal in roles that occurred in the early 1980s, when thrifts became traders and traders thrifts. — Michael Lewis

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators. — Ralph Nader

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands. — Cornel West

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country ... — Susan Cain

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

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

Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes. — Jeff Bezos

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power. — Charlie Munger

Wall Street paid the most for what I could do, which was nothing. — Michael Lewis

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

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street. — Bernie Sanders

I'm not in Wall Street for my health. — J. P. Morgan

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

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens. — Robert Kiyosaki

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki

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

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

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

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero. — Matt Taibbi

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

I Believe The Failure To Punish Wall Street Criminals Is The Core Cause Of Our Sick Economy. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street. — Dave Brat

You are either on Wall Street or you're a bum and there's nothing in between. — Katya G. Cohen

If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent. — Bernie Sanders

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

Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue. — Robin Thicke

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

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks. — Bernard Madoff

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill. — Ronald Ross

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

I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street. — Ben Nelson

There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker. — Alex Pareene

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 am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor's best friend and Wall Street's worst nightmare. — Jonathan Clements

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.. — Jimmy Breslin

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

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth. — Peter Thiel

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street. — Eugene V. Debs

We should be worrying about Wall Street - run health care. — Wendell Potter

Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession. — Chuck Schumer

The techniques that were used in the 1930s to reset the economy will simply not work today. Gordon L. Eade — Kenneth Eade

A Random Walk Down Wall Street — Daniel Kahneman

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

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

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

'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

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

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. — David Lynch

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 opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill. — Mike Pence

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?' — Tom Brokaw

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City. — Gerald Chertavian

Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor. — Charles Dow

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot. — Walter Schloss

Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes. — Monica Crowley

In an economy that is overleveraged to historic proportions, economic stimuli will not do the trick. — Kenneth Eade

Wall Street crime, in part, is a confidence game in which the criminal justice system itself is the mark. — Matt Taibbi

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 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