Elizabeth Warren Quotes

I have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.

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

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

Wall Street has desperate need of men like you.

I went to work on Wall Street for about three or four years with an investment bank, got certified: series 3, series 7, and all this stuff.

I had come from a middle-class family in Port Washington, Long Island, and I was really clueless about Wall Street. My first job there I basically got fired from.

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

One of the things that's great about the financial industry is, it's really financially rewarding.

For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job at Merrill Lynch as an account executive, from where I went to vice president of investments for Prudential-Bache Securities. I started my own firm in 1987.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

Merrill Lynch is this hugely prestigious brand.

If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.

I happen to know a bit about banking.

Bankers are doing God’s Work!

I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

The financial sector is vital to the economy. A well-functioning financial sector promotes job creation, innovation, and inclusive economic growth.

Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average trader didn't have a sense of what was coming. The culture is so vacuous, it's possible to come to it straight out of college and never have a real adult life, even if you have the wife and kids.

I hated being a junior investment banker. I loved the research business, the wealth management business.

I happen to love financial services.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

I have very good friends on Wall Street.

My dad works for Merrill Lynch so I'm in good hands there.

I don't think that the financial services industry and that banking in particular are any different than any other part of the economy, any other industry outside banking.

I studied economics and thought I wanted to play with the stock market - my dad was a financial adviser - and I was going to go down that path. I was an intern at Smith Barney.