Top 47 Salomon Quotes
#1. [Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]
Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.
Audrey Niffenegger
#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. Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon just got themselves a marriage license. I think before she gets married again Pam needs to slow down and think about whether this is really the man she wants to spend three or four months of her life with.
Chelsea Handler
#4. How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at Salomon that I had meant to screw the customer. People would respect that. That was called jamming. I had just jammed bonds, albeit unknowingly, for the first time. I had lost my innocence.
Michael Lewis
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.
Mary Meeker
#8. Hulk Hogan's wife has filed for divorce. This is the most devastating breakup since Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee. And then Pam Anderson and Kid Rock. And soon, Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon.
Chelsea Handler
#9. A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work
Idries Shah
#10. Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
Francis Bacon
#11. Donnie Green himself had been a trader at Salomon Brothers in the dark ages, when traders had more hair on their chests than on their heads.
Michael Lewis
#12. If there was a single lesson I took away from Salomon Brothers, it is that rarely do all parties win. The nature of the game is zero sum. A dollar out of my customer's pocket was a dollar in ours, and vice versa.
Michael Lewis
#13. I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.
Michael Lewis
#14. The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
Blaise Pascal
#15. As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing ... playing helpless.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#18. If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#19. War had taken hold of them and would never let them go. They would never really belong to their homes again. The war was over ... but the armies were still in being.
Ernst Von Salomon
#20. I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I. And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#21. It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#23. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#24. What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.
Salomon Bochner
#25. Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#27. People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.
Salomon Grimberg
#28. A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#30. And with dream-awakened eyes, she saw all the beauty around her, saw the sea, felt the sun, and knew she had to vanish for a while from the human plane and make every sacrifice in order to create her world anew out of the depths.
Charlotte Salomon
#32. Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
And if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#33. So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second
Frederick Salomon Perls
#34. I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#35. Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#37. the most important street smart in a city of strangers is simply good manners.
Eugene Salomon
#41. To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#42. Nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#43. The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps even, somewhat against grammar, "acquirable knowledge," that is, "learnable knowledge," that is, "knowledge acquirable by learning."
Salomon Bochner
#45. You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?
Frederick Salomon Perls
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