Paul: Gordon Bennett. What the fuck's been going on here?
Soap: OY! Keep your fingers out of my soup!
A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.
Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.
Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
Some of the New York Radical Women shortly afterward formed WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) and its members, dressed as witches, appeared suddenly on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A leaflet put out by WITCH in...
Clifford Stern: [on Lester] When he tells you he wants to exchange ideas, what he wants is to exchange fluids.
After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.
In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.
Stocks change. Industries change. But the underlying reasons certain stocks are good investments remain the same. Only the fullness of time reveals which are the most sound.
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.
I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.
Rory Breaker: If the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kinda pussy to drink it.
Barry the Baptist: Fucking northern monkeys! Lenny: I hate these fucking southern fairies!
