Benjamin Graham Quotes

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.

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

The real problems of our economy began when the very smart people of our society went to Wall Street.

Wall Street has become a veritable casino.

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

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.

The stock market is the world’s largest Oujie Board.

A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.

There’s a lot of money in making financial products whose risk few understand. Simplicity might be good for economics, but it’s lousy for Wall Street bonuses.

I am not in Wall Street for my health.

In reality, no one on Wall Street cares about anything except performance.

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

My impression of Wall Street growing up was certainly that it was like the big, bad place where all of the men did the bad things with our money.

On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything disseminates there faster than anywhere.

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.

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

My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.

We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread.