Trading Floor Quotes

• I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

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  Chelsea Clinton

  Wall   Trading Floor   Camaraderie  

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• The truth is that once you get down on the trading floor, you find that the traders come from all walks of life. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a trader. In fact, some of the best traders whom I knew down on the floor were surf bums. Formal education didn't really seem to have much to do with a person's skill as a trader.

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  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Skills   Rockets   Facts  

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• Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.

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  Jerry Saltz

  People   Theatre   Trading Floor  

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• If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

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  Bill Ackman

  Trading Floor   Looks   Phantoms  

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• The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

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  Michael Lewis

  School   Ignorance   Men  

  Michael Lewis (2014). “Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition): Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (25th Anniversary Edition)”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

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