Brokers Quotes - Page 2

• A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

  William Greider

  Jobs, Government, Law

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.

  Warren Buffett

  Pockets, Investing, Irony

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• 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

  Country, Heart, Bills

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.168, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Real, Firsts, Trouble

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• One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire people from here and make deals from this room, he told me. Then he took me to the trading room. Nobody was talking to anybody else, the place was silent as a tomb, they were all sitting there watching their terminals - a great word, terminal. I tell you, it scares the crap out of me.

  Studs Terkel

  Talking, People, Office

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• 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

  Play, Want, Matter

  Speech to the Reichstag, 19 February 1878, in Ludwig Hahn (ed.) 'Fürst Bismarck. Sein politisches Leben und Wirken' vol. 3 (1881) p. 90

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• 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

  Love Is, People, Want

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• The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.

  Michio Kaku

  Jobs, Garden, Blue

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• 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

  Reading, Get Better, Knows

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• So I conjured one of the brokers and promised him my soul if he’d protect her. (Zephyra) You can’t do that. Only a demon can. (Stryker) You’re such a brainiac, baby. And to think, I thought I married you for those amazing abs. Who knew all that brainpower was buried under those bulging biceps? (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Thinking, Soul

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “One Silent Night”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants, insurance brokers, hairdressers, mothers of children, black belts, pop stars, taxi drivers, painters, lesbians, doctors etc. etc. The X-Files, Buffy, the Matrix, X-Men - mainstream culture is not what it once was when science fiction and comics fans huddled in cellars like Gnostic Christians dodging the Romans. We should come up into the light soon before we suffocate.

  Grant Morrison

  Christian, Mother, Stars

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• Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Laughter, Kindness

  "Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith". Book by Anne Lamott, 2007.

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• What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.

  John Grant

  Business, People, Brands

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• If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Country, Money, Differences

  "Student Loans: The Government Is Now Officially in the Banking Business" by Ellen Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

  Donald T. Regan

  Wall, Astrology, Use

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• 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

  Jobs, Giving, Parent

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• The average person can’t really trust anybody. They can’t trust a broker, because the broker is interested in churning commissions. They can’t trust a mutual fund, because the mutual fund is interested in gathering a lot of assets and keeping them. And now it’s even worse because even the most sophisticated people have no idea what’s going on.

  Seth Klarman

  Average, Ideas, People

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• I just made a killing in the stock market -- I shot my broker.

  Henny Youngman

  Killing, Made, Shots

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian position. The irony of the matter, though, is that whenever the Christian community gains worldly power, it nearly always loses its capacity to be the critic of the power and influence it so readily brokers.

  Peter J. Gomes

  Christian, Community, Triumph

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• The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again, take in to send out again, and the greatest Part of their vast Commerce consists in being supply'd from All Parts of the World, that they may supply All th World Again.

  Daniel Defoe

  Europe, History, World

  Daniel Defoe (1967). “A Plan of the English Commerce: Being a Compleat Prospect of the Trade of this Nation, as Well the Home Trade as the Foreign”

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

  Barbara Corcoran

  Real, Agents, Seven

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• 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

  Life Is Good, Air, Brotherhood

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theology has become an embarrassing encumbrance or a matter of which they have little knowledge; and many in the Church have now turned in upon themselves and substituted for the knowledge of God a search for the knowledge of self.

  David F. Wells

  Past, Self, People

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• 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

  Party, College, Years

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• 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

  Israel, Land, Would Be

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