Securities Trading Quotes

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

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.

Citadel's Capital Market division plays an important role in our nation's financial markets. Our broker-dealer is the largest market maker in options in the United States, executing approximately 30 percent of all equity option trades daily.

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.

The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.

You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

What I immediately recognized about Wall Street in 1983 was that it was a continuation of my career in theater. Wall Street is a big theater, and it's all illusions.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

The reality is that the institutional framework in which Wall Street operates is fundamentally inappropriate, and it inevitably generates violent fluctuations of the market.

It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole.

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

Thanks, Mr. President. Nobody has complimented the stock exchange for a long while.

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

Buying securities is usually easier than selling securities.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job.

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.