Wall Quotes - page 48

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right. (Jesse Jackson)
It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media. View quote
Billy Corgan
The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
The entire history of Wall Street was the story of scandals, it now seemed to him, linked together tail to trunk like circus elephants. Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
"Liquidity" was one of those words Wall Street people threw around when they wanted the conversation to end, and for brains to go dead, and for all questioning to cease. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
The relationship of the big Wall Street banks to the high frequency traders, when you think about it, was a bit like the relationship of the entire society to the big Wall Street banks. When things went well, the HFT guys took most of the gains; when things went badly, the HFT guys vanished and the banks took the losses. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
When we go up to the shelves in the reading-room of the British Museum, how like it is to wasps flying up and down an apricot tree that is trained against a wall, or cattle coming down to drink at a pool! View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of. View quote
John Banville
Give all your gifts away in service to the world. If you want to paint, don't wait for a grant. Paint a wall in your town that looks drab and uninviting. You never know who's going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community. View quote
Marianne Williamson
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it. (Peter Carey)
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. View quote
Stephen Covey
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values. View quote
Deepak Chopra
My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out. View quote
Henry Rollins
We cannot give any compensation for Palestine, neither to the Palestinians nor to other Arabs. Therefore, a voluntary agreement is inconceivable. All colonization, even the most restricted, must continue in defiance of the will of the native population. Therefore, it can continue and develop only under the shield of force which comprises an Iron Wall which the local population can never break through. This is our Arab policy. To formulate it any other way would be hypocrisy. View quote
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Everybody get up against the fucking wall. The FBI is in control. All the white people get out of here. View quote
Michael Grimm
We can not gaze into space and understand that space has no end. There is no brick wall at the end of space, because if there was, what would be behind the brick wall? It just goes on and on......never ending. The thought of infinity hurts my brain – I can not understand it. The Bible teaches us that God is eternal, without beginning and without end. We being finite, can not understand a world without time. Time is just a dimension that God has created and subjected man to Eternity and infinity are too much for our tiny brains to comprehend. View quote
Ray Comfort
For as long as I can recall, I enjoyed reading. I literally read books from cover to cover. Then I started wondering where words come from. Who made them up? Who said that that opening in a wall was to be called a window? Then I discovered that each word comes with a biography. These words have fascinating stories to tell, if only we take the time to listen. For example, the word window comes from Old Norse in which it meant wind's eye. How much more poetic can you get? View quote
Anu Garg
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. View quote
Fareed Zakaria
I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. (E. L. Doctorow)
Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot. View quote
Jimmy Fallon
Roger: Uh no – that would be dangerous because they're in my bedroom. People could get hurt. But no, I made shelves and it takes up a giant wall. View quote
Roger Manganelli
The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall. View quote
Albert Camus
Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it. View quote
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell