“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...”

“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...”

“For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If...”

“It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, ...”

“As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with h...”

“It is what we sow into people that they become”

“It bothers me when people have no problem paying for all they can eat but have problems investing in all they can be.”

“The "No Excuses" Mindset is an investment in yourself, allowing you to turn your excuses for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of ...”