Warren Buffett Quotes

We did not investigate Wall Street because we were troubled by large institutions making a lot of money; we took action to stop a blatant fraud that was ripping of small investors.

Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just recently paid a settlement fine with the federal government for $5 billion for defrauding investors.

I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself.

I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us.

The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less.

While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys!

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name.

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

… clean up thoroughly unwholesome conditions in the field of investment. In this we have had assistance from many bankers and businessmen, most of whom recognize the past evils in the banking system, in the sale of securities, in the deliberate encouragement of stock gambling, in the sale of unsound mortgages and in many other ways in which the public lost billions of dollars. They saw that without changes in the policies and methods of investment there could be no recovery of public confidence in the security of savings.

Say no to politicians who sacrifice the interests of individual investors to corporate interests.

Markets are self-regulating only because some brave investors are prepared to bet against the market trend.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

I don’t think that Wall Street should write its own rules.

The big-ego temper tantrums of Wall Street's titans must be a concern for everyone on Wall Street. Bad behavior and manipulation of the markets must be called out by those in the industry concerned for its future.