Stock Exchange Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

  Alex Jones

  Media, Cities, Majority

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• There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir

  Michael Lewis

  Weekend, Islands, Long

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• The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Running, Strong

  TMF Interview, www.fool.com. July 3, 2002.

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• Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was  expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: “The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.”

  Edwin Lefevre

  New York, Mistake, Successful

  Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world.

  Richard Ney

  New York, Squares, Feet

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• It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

  Phil Angelides

  New York, Important, Moral

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• What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

  William McChesney Martin

  New York, United States, Might

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• I've been a woman in a man's world now for 30 years. I was the first person to broadcast from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and that was just all suits all the time. It didn't really affect me in any way.

  Maria Bartiromo

  New York, Men, Years

  Source: wwd.com

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• The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

  Paul Virilio

  People, Risk, Accidents

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Buying, Selling, Bigs

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• Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

  B. W. Powe

  Country, Fire, Greed

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

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• In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

  Petrus Borel

  Two, Paris, Thieves

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• All this plan does is make everybody a capitalist. I know that the New York Stock Exchange says there are 25 million shareholders in the United States, but let me tell you something: about 15 million of those people could save their dividends for 10 years and maybe buy a new suit. That's not what I call capitalism.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, New York, Years

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