Gutfreund Quotes

#1. We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

George H. W. Bush

#2. What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: One hand, one million dollars, no tears.

Michael Lewis

#3. By words the mind is winged.

Aristophanes

#4. Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

John Gutfreund

#5. they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's.

Charles Dickens

#6. Fair enough, Gutfreund had once been a trader, but that was as relevant as an old woman's claim that she was once quite a dish.

Michael Lewis

#7. Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar.

John Gutfreund

#8. Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

Nelson Shanks

#9. I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

John Gutfreund

#10. Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

John Gutfreund

#11. Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#12. Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,
he never quite goes this low.

Morrissey

#13. Gutfreund (pronounced Good friend) liked to sneak up from behind and surprise you. This was fun for him but not for you.

Michael Lewis

#14. We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#15. People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

John Gutfreund

#16. I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.

Dorothy Hamill

#17. The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

Rachel Cusk

#18. I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

John Gutfreund

#19. the regular crying, lights on

Amir Gutfreund

#20. The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

John Gutfreund

#21. Sometimes it's about more than your own happiness. Sometimes you have to think of other people.

Aaron Starmer

#22. Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy?
CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

Charles M. Schulz

#23. There are no boundaries or limits when it comes to love

Onew

#24. I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Wow, I whisper. Hello, beautifully gorgeous ring that needs to be on my finger.

Jillian Dodd

#26. I am more rich in goods than I am in money.

John Gutfreund

#27. I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

John Gutfreund

#28. I can't change my past, Bianca. All I can do is be honest with you, and I've done my best.

R.K. Lilley

#29. I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

John Gutfreund