Top 43 Quotes About Brokers
#1. I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.
Bryan Greenberg
#2. It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.
Donald T. Regan
#3. Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud.
Michael Lewis
#4. Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad.
Andrea Mitchell
#5. Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so many brokers were doing it that it was impossible to jail them all. Now it was called smart trading.
Max Barry
#6. Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.
Carolyn Wells
#7. ( ... ) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves)
Jess Walter
#9. I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.
Melvin Van Peebles
#10. The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.
Robert Kiyosaki
#11. The same with the mortgage brokers that were selling people mortgages they couldn't afford. We shouldn't pay them on each mortgage they write. They should have what they call "skin in the game," where they've got to reimburse us if the guy who sold the mortgage defaults.
Richard Thaler
#12. Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.
Maria Bartiromo
#13. Transitions from clientelism have often involved leaders from different parties colluding against the entire class of brokers.
Susan C. Stokes
#14. Why have we swallowed the lie that we can only help if we're perfect? The cosmic truth sealed in the wounds of the broken God is that the greatest brokers of abundance know an unspoken broken. Wrapping
Ann Voskamp
#15. Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up ... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle.
Dan Brown
#16. You invite a few players in to start a game of Texas Hold'em by telling them that the deck doesn't have any jacks or queens in it and that you won't tell the other people who come to play with them. How do you get people into the casino? You pay the brokers to bring them there.
Michael Lewis
#17. In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.
Roger Staubach
#18. I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party.
Jonathan Moyo
#19. Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.
John Harwood
#20. Avoiding Middlemen - What Most China Sourcing Agents, Trading Companies, and Brokers Don't Want You to Know! Geographic
Mike Bellamy
#21. It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. A college offers a course that prepares students for the state licensing exam for real estate brokers.
Paul J. Deitel
#23. Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature's beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own salvation.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#24. It had come back to him simply that what he had been looking at all summer was a very rich and beautiful world, and that it had not all been made by sharp railroad men and stock-brokers.
Henry James
#25. I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
Barbara Corcoran
#26. Projectors, Brokers of Capital, Insurancers, Peddlers upon the global Scale, Enterprisers and Quacks, - these are the last poor fallen and feckless inheritors of a knowledge they can never use, but in the service of Greed.
Thomas Pynchon
#27. Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.
Dale T. Mortensen
#28. Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales.
Nancy Dunnan
#29. We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.
Bernard Goldberg
#30. I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?
Kemp Muhl
#31. Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
Jimmy Breslin
#32. Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.
Frank Stella
#33. Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace.
Margaret Thatcher
#34. People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.
Benjamin Graham
#35. Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.
Joel Spolsky
#36. University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.
Peter Thiel
#38. On Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.
Marya Mannes
#39. What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!
Samuel Beckett
#40. I told my broker that as long as he doesn't tell me where my money should go, I won't tell him where he should go.
Leopold Fechtner
#41. What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.
John Grant
#42. I dont want to just be a broker all my life, I want to lead.
Luis D. Ortiz
#43. The broker said the stock was "poised to move." Silly me, I thought he meant up.
Randy Thurman
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