“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri? says one trader still at Salomon. Thats easy. Strauss wouldnt stoop to use the mens room on the trading floor. Hed go upstairs. Lewie would piss on your ...”

“It was the job of people like me to make up reasons, to spin a plausible yarn. And its amazing what people will believe. Heavy selling out of the Middle East was an old standby. Since no one ever h...”

“He shouted into the phone, That is fuckin awesome. I mean fuckin awesome. I fuckin mean fucking awesome. You are one Big Swinging Dick, and dont ever let anybody tell you different. It brought tear...”

“Buy potatoes, he said. Gotta hop. Then he hung up. Of course. A cloud of fallout would threaten European food and water supplies, including the potato crop, placing a premium on uncontaminated Amer...”

“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost no function in an investment bank. The banker...”

“The markets in the long run are no doubt driven by fundamental economic lawsif the United States runs a persistent trade deficit, the dollar will eventually plummetbut in the short run money flows ...”

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

“You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being”