The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know.
In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.
Bernie Madoff - Oktober 2007
Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.
I do my thieving indoors; you do yours on the stock exchange.
They’ll have to open Manhattan by morning. Eight dead policemen is one thing, but the stock market losing billions of dollars is quite another.
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If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
Making money isn't hard in itself. What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
Who needs wealth when you can make a woman laugh?
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3Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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3Money is the McMansion in Sarasota, that starts falling apart after ten years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.
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2You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
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2The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.
William Gibson - December 2003
Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
Globalization can be a great opportunity.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
Banksy in Wall and Piece
There was too much noise in the world. Before, it seemed like we were just sleeping in a continuous stream of information and news, buying junk that we didn't even need.
Oliver Frost in The Day Before
Go to college. Then you can rip people off and get paid for it. It's called capitalism.
Michael De Santa in GTA - Grand Theft Auto - V
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.
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I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
F*ck my victims. I carried them for twenty years, and now I'm doing 150 years.
Bernie Madoff - Juni 2010
The thing that was important to me was family, but that's all gone. That's more punishment that being incarcerated.
I basically think everybody would be better off if people weren't able to exert so much influence on politicians with money.
I am painfully aware that I have deeply hurt many, many people.
Bernie Madoff - March 2009
What a pity that I am not an honest man!
The train was rushing on, joyously, intoxicated with its own speed.
Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.
It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner.
We got twenty-one bridges in and out of Manhattan. Shut them down. Three rivers. Close them. Four tunnels. Block them. Stop every train and loop the subways. Then we flood the island with blue.
Andre Davis in 21 Bridges