#broker

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#business #cia #families #family #into

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#generous #had #i #knew #money

In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#brokers #business #commercial #construction #customers

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas." ↗

— Claude Pepper

#age #bananas #buy #even #every

(…) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves) ↗

— Jess Walter

#finance #humor #suicide #money

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#broker #human #human race #i #i do

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#additional #basic #basis #benefit #broker

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#brokers #clerks #colleges #friends #live

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#bank #banker #became #because #broker

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#advertising #brokerage #business #cannot #constructive