Jonathan Franzen Quotes

I've never particularly liked bankers.

Bankers are doing God’s Work!

I'm not pro-Wall Street or anti-Wall Street. I'm pro-New York City.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.

Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.

Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.

My dad was a banker, and I've always had an interest in it.

London is a very important financial centre.

I wouldn't in any way say I distanced myself from Wall Street.

I decided I was going to go to Wall Street, and I was introduced to some people... I met a guy who knew a bond trader at Pressprich, and he got me to meet him and the guy that ran their sales department, Jack Collin.

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry.

Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.

Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?

I happen to know a bit about banking.

I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes, is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.

When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.

We know what we are. Our business is originating, distributing, and managing capital for individuals and institutions.

Washington, D.C., is the new Wall Street. No significant financial transaction of any consequence occurs without it.

Banking's a sexy industry! Creative - it's dynamic, it's global, it's fast-moving, you bring a lot of talented people together!

I didn't join a bank because my father worked in a bank or because I thought I was going to be a banker or because I thought I was going to be where I am today.