Financial Center Quotes

Home is New York.

It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

I've been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. I'm not a Wall Street lawyer, I'm a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.

Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

London is a modern Babylon.

London's central role in the financial market would be undermined if wealthy foreigners did not want to come here.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

Toronto is like a smaller, safe New York.

What is clear is that in 1900, Galveston was growing fast, had already become the number one cotton port on the Gulf Coast, and was already being referred to as 'the New York of the Gulf.'

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

Shanghai is Asia's New York.

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

The Hudson River Tunnel is a chokepoint for the financial center - and most productive region - of the United States. It is the most heavily trafficked piece of rail in the entire country and even a partial closure will suffocate our nation's economy.

I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

Somewhere along the way, New York became all about money. Or rather, it was always about money, but it wasn't all about money, if you know what I mean. New York's not Geneva or Zurich yet, but we're certainly heading in that direction. London is, too.

London is the clearing-house of the world.

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

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.

The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it.