“The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.s in mans ignorance.”

“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...”

“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 ...”

“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 don’t ever let anybody tell you different.” It brough...”

“Those who work, knows the strength of labour.”

“I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the cove...”

“I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in p...”