“The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is ‘the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you’.”

It’s a proprietary strategy. I can’t go into it in great detail.

In today’s regulatory environment, it’s virtually impossible to violate rules … but it’s impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who’s selling it to him does not know. There’s no zero sum game in Wall Street.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.

In today’s regulatory environment, it’s virtually impossible to violate rules.

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

All one great big lie.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.

I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.

I think just being together and talking would be nice. But when we grow old, when greed and vanity will be completely gone, when I will be tired of singing can I return to that place too?

Hell has three hates: lust, anger and greed.

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.