Bernard Madoff Quotes

#1. I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

Cheryl Hines

#2. Some things in life are bigger than our needs and when our simple needs are transcended, the wise know to let go - from Opoponax Dreams

Genieve Dawkins

#3. The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

Bernard Madoff

#4. The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

Bernard Madoff

#5. Friendship often grows out of shared experiences

Andrew Hacker

#6. But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

George S. McGovern

#7. Oooh, dinner and a show! How come you never take us to dinner and a show?"
He smiled at Roxy. "I would spend the entire evening fending off the hordes of your admirers."
She fanned herself and grinned back at him. "You gotta love all that suave debonairness!

Katie MacAlister

#8. I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.

Don Roff

#9. You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.

Bernard Madoff

#10. Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

John Thorn

#11. Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

Bernard Madoff

#12. I pretended that it wasn't such a big deal, that I knew we weren't suited, that I agreed with what-ever bullshit rationale you used - 'we don't make each other the best possible versions of ourselves' or what-ever. But you did make me the best 'me'.

Lottie Moggach

#13. I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Jeremy Irons

#14. Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

Bernard Madoff

#15. It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.

Bernard Madoff

#16. The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

Bernard Madoff

#17. In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

Bernard Madoff

#18. The audience I have in mind is always me and my friends. And my two sisters. We're the feminists in my life - and we are also mothers and daughters and hot and neurotic and existing on wine and coffee and disappointed and brave.

Jennifer Baumgardner

#19. In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries the body ... For the thirst there is need of a powerful remedy, for in kind it is the greatest of all sufferings, and when a fluid is drunk, it stimulates the discharge of urine.

Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

#20. All one great big lie.

Bernard Madoff