Stock Exchange Quotes

• You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

  Robert Bunsen

  Science, Regularity, Quotations

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• The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.

  Steig Larsson

  Reality, People, Different

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• People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Thinking, People

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.48, Holt Paperbacks

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• A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

  Alfred Capus

  War, Men, People

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• There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.

  Thomas W. Lamont

  Littles, Selling, Distress

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• First reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

  Maria Bartiromo

  New York, Google, Firsts

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• Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Laughter, Taken, Weather

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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• It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Iron, People, Giving

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• The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

  John Mortimer

  Business, Freedom Of Speech, Sound

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• The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Class, San Francisco, Pockets

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• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  T. Boone Pickens

  New York, Oil, Looks

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• It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gambling, Casinos, Financial

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise.

  Jean Charest

  Hands, Groups, Able

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• From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.

  Preet Bharara

  Technology, Agency, Government

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• Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

  Michael Moore

  Jesus, New York, Thinking

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• The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

  Karl Marx

  Gambling, Debt, Joints

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.827, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Real, Educational

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

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• The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

  Bob Brown

  Ambition, Champion, Economics

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• Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Father, Missing, Advice

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• These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.

  Stephen Crane

  Dream, Kings, War

  Stephen Crane (1970). “The Works of Stephen Crane Vol. 5: Tales of Adventure”, University of Virginia Press

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• The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.

  Charles A. Beard

  Morning, New York, Men

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• Some people who don't like guns can't stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It's how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange.

  Dave Kopel

  New York, Gun, Ideas

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• How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Girl, Art, Men

  Oskar Kokoschka, Marlborough Gallery (1981). “Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition”

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• Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Quality, Degrees, Demand

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.46, Penguin

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• Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Mystery, Should, Buyers

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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