Abraham Polonsky Quotes

When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

I am not in Wall Street for my health.

Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

On Wall Street, there is no "Wall Street"; there are individuals.

If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.

In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

I made my money by selling too soon.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

In my first book, 'Ghosts Of Manhattan,' the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money.

I have very good friends on Wall Street.

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

Wall Street, like every industry, has good and bad players.

I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.

I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.

I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health.

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.