Quotes About Trading Floor

#1. The first thing you learn on the trading floor is that when large numbers of people are after the same commodity, be it a stock, a bond, or a job, the commodity quickly becomes overvalued.

Michael Lewis

#2. Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque ... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.

Jerry Saltz

#3. It seemed glamorous when I used to go into work and get to be on a trading floor or see how the business worked a little bit before I ever understood what it was.

Erin Duffy

#4. With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

Barry Ritholtz

#5. I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

Chelsea Clinton

#6. I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I think that as a result, particularly on the, on, you know, on the trading floor, in the financial markets in general, the approach would be different.

Christine Lagarde

#7. The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?" says one trader still at Salomon. "That's easy. Strauss wouldn't stoop to use the men's room on the trading floor. He'd go upstairs. Lewie would piss on your desk.

Michael Lewis

#8. If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

Bill Ackman

#9. The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.'s in man's ignorance.

Michael Lewis

#10. A big bonus was about as well concealed on the Salomon Brothers trading floor as the results of a hot date in a high school boys' locker room.

Michael Lewis

#11. ... The shocking thing about any stripper gathering, I discovered, was that you have never heard women talk so fast and so explicitly about money in all your life. They make the guys on the trading floor on Wall Street look like a bunch of pansies.

Susie Bright

#12. Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness.

Elizabeth Haynes

#13. I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#14. Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Erich Maria Remarque

#15. It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything,

Matt Kenseth

#16. President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped over the White House fence for joy.

Conan O'Brien

#17. What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

Plutarch

#18. You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

Taisen Deshimaru

#19. Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Coco Chanel

#20. If I can't be in bed with Jack Hamma at least I can be in bed with Jane Austen

Anthony E. Thorogood

#21. I lived in a project and ... didn't have a good education. But ... I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

Evander Holyfield

#22. The true source of economic security is self-reliance and economic freedom - Social Security is immoral because it subverts both.

Don Watkins