- Nov 07, 2020
Street Quotes
On streets, cities, and the people who walk them.
Street here means several things at once - a career path through Wall Street, a childhood spent in dance class instead of on the block, and an ordinary bystander worn down by conflict. Like shares a similarly reflective tone.
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, you know: my mother-in-law, who doesn't have an ounce of nerd in her, is just so excited by the fact that I write 'Batman' because she'll see an article about me in the 'Washington Post' or 'The Wall Street Journal' or something. And that means so much to me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what it is about me: I am no Rock Hudson, but I absolutely wow all the little old white-haired ladies. They stop me and talk to me all over the country, on the street, in restaurants, in elevators.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.
- Few Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.
- Financial Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020