#insider

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#descriptions #insider #people #perceptions #writers

If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#dystopian #dystopian-fiction #good-book #inside-out #insider

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight. ↗

— Daniel Drew

#buying #cows #insider #like #man

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#apparent #appeared #attorney #bluntly #district

Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#best #billion #boards #buck #companies

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#eminently #fraud #generally #insider #particular

Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#casually #communication #companies #elements #engaged

Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#even #here #i #i can #illegal

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#insight #often #outsiders #quite

Travis,” Caeden’s teeth groaned together. “If you know what’s good for you, you’ll run.” “Oh, are we playing cat and mouse?” Travis grinned, showing elongated teeth. Hair began to sprout and he started to shimmer. “I love games. I choose cat,” his words were muffled around his teeth. ↗

— Micalea Smeltzer

#love