The Broker Quotes

#1. Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

Ron Chernow

#2. He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

Robert A. Caro

#3. 'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Konrad Lorenz

#4. I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better

John Grisham

#5. When I moved, the broker had told me there was something good for the brain about living near the sea, something about ions. But I often felt like the water was insulting me, like, I'm beautiful and endless - what are you doing with your life?

Anna North

#6. The broker said the stock was "poised to move." Silly me, I thought he meant up.

Randy Thurman

#7. Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.

Ogden Nash

#8. up to fifty thousand pounds for Miller's death." VOLKOV OBVIOUSLY CALLED the Broker about it, too, because it wasn't much more

Jack Higgins

#9. For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Trading the markets is a totally self-centered activity. Nobody's life gets better because you trade. Except your broker's life.

Robert Rolih

#11. I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

Barbara Boxer

#12. I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

Barbara Corcoran

#13. What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

Elbert Hubbard

#14. Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson. You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

Otto Von Bismarck

#16. I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

Leo Buscaglia

#17. I just made a killing in the stock market
I shot my broker.

Henny Youngman

#18. And, assure thyself, there is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valour.

William Shakespeare

#19. Now I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt and then my broker said the same thing.

Leopold Fechtner

#20. One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

Kathleen Wynne

#21. Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

Eugene Jarecki

#22. Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

Loretta Lynch

#23. Japan should get more involved in mediating disputes between countries and seek to play the role of a peace broker. To make this possible, we must train people so they have a solid understanding of international politics and great negotiation skills.

Sadako Ogata

#24. I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions.

Stephen King

#25. The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

Robert Kiyosaki

#26. I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

Ashin Wirathu

#27. A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

Walter Lippmann

#28. If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.

William J. Bernstein

#29. If Heaven actually exists, I don't need anyone to be my real estate broker. After all, what is religion but an attempt to sell you a share in the ultimate gated community?

Quentin R. Bufogle

#30. After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.

Alice Dreger

#31. She's always suggesting books like a literary marriage broker, wedding readers to the titles just right for them.

Joseph Bruchac

#32. I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them. They are a phenomenon of the 50-something who can't remember if his broker's number ends in 1137 or 3317.

Elliott Abrams

#33. We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

Chris Matthews

#34. There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.

William Shakespeare

#35. MARIE ,THE MADAM-She has the looks of Liz Taylor and the brains of a Wall Street broker. " We were lovers for a hot five minutes when I first hit the TL. Marie always liked a lot of diamonds,and I've always liked alot of girls. With that combination,we're better off as friends.

Jeri Estes

#36. I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

Clive Thompson

#37. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

George Carlin

#38. The marriage broker had assured her the groom's family was more concerned about the colour of Malli's skin than the size of her dowry.

Rasana Atreya

#39. Maybe individual people seem irrational because they aren't really individuals! Each one of us is a little nation-state, doing our best to settle disputes and broker compromises between the squabbling voices that drive us.

Jordan Ellenberg

#40. I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Honore De Balzac

#41. If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.

Michelle Shocked

#42. Never call your broker on Monday. Out of courtesy and common sense, wait until Tuesday. A good broker is focused on the opening of the market - at home and around the world - and on getting back into a business frame of mind after the weekend.

Nancy Dunnan

#43. The best measure of a politician's electoral success was becoming not how successfully he could broker people's desires, but how well he could tap their fears.

Rick Perlstein